PRIME MINISTER

Detainees

William Hague: To ask the Prime Minister with reference to the statement of 18 March 2009,  Official Report, columns 55-6WS, on detainees, how many cases of potential criminal wrongdoing have been referred to the Attorney-General since March 2009; and if he will make a statement.

Gordon Brown: Since March 2009 one further case has been referred to the Attorney-General, as set out in a letter from the Foreign Secretary to the right hon. Gentleman on 11 September 2009.

CABINET OFFICE

10 Downing Street

Francis Maude: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office pursuant to the answer of 4 February 2010,  Official Report, column 508W, on departmental official hospitality, on what date  (a) Mr. Derek Draper,  (b) Mr. Charlie Whelan and  (c) Mr. Damian McBride last entered the Downing Street/Cabinet Office complex as a visitor.  [Official Report, 9 March 2010, Vol. 507, c. 3MC.]

Tessa Jowell: I refer the hon. Gentleman to my answer given on 4 February 2010,  Official Report, column 877W.

Deaths: Alcoholic Drinks

Don Foster: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many deaths of  (a) men and  (b) women attributable to the effects of alcohol there were in each local authority area in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

Angela Smith: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
	 Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated March 2010:
	As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking how many deaths of (a) men and (b) women attributable to alcohol misuse there were in each local authority area in each of the last five years for which figures are available. (320047)
	The tables provide the number of deaths where the underlying cause was alcohol-related for (a) males (Table 1) and (b) females (Table 2), in each local authority in England and Wales, for the years 2004 to 2008 (the latest year available). Copies have been placed in the House of Commons Library.
	Internationally accepted guidance from the World Health Organisation requires only those conditions that contributed directly to the death to be recorded on the death certificate. Medical practitioners and coroners are not supposed to record all of the diseases or conditions present at or before death, and whether a condition contributed is a matter for their clinical judgement. Lifestyle and behavioural factors, such as the deceased's alcohol consumption, are not recorded.

Departmental Computers

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many computer keyboards purchased by her Department have been replaced owing to damage in each of the last 12 months.

Angela Smith: The Cabinet Office IT services are outsourced to Fujitsu Services Ltd. Keyboards are provided as part of that service and replaced by the supplier when they are faulty. In the last 12 months there have been 100 replacements. The following table shows how many have been replaced in each of the last 12 months:
	
		
			   Number 
			 March 2009 10 
			 April 2009 10 
			 May 2009 12 
			 June 2009 8 
			 July 2009 12 
			 August 2009 8 
			 September 2009 8 
			 October 2009 8 
			 November 2009 9 
			 December 2009 5 
			 January 2010 5 
			 February 2010 5

Honours

Francis Maude: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office with reference to the Prime Minister's speech at Britain's Everyday Heroes Book Launch of 24 July 2007, what steps she has taken to reform the honours system to recognise more widely citizens' contributions to civic society since July 2007.

Tessa Jowell: Following his speech on 24 July 2007, my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister wrote to all Cabinet colleagues asking them to do more to emphasise, when considering candidates for honours, the role played by volunteers and others who serve the community. The Cabinet Secretary, as Chair of the Main Honours Committee, wrote to the Chairs of the eight Independent Honours Selection Committees repeating this strategic guidance. Government Departments and all those involved in the honours process are reminded of this guidance on a regular basis. In the New Year's Honours List 2010, 73 per cent. of all awards went to people working in the community.

WOMEN AND EQUALITY

Equality and Human Rights Commission: Industrial Disputes

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Minister for Women and Equality pursuant to the answer of 25 January 2010,  Official Report, column 556W, on Equality and Human Rights Commission: industrial disputes, how much the Commission has spent to date on  (a) internal courses,  (b) external courses and  (c) external trainers for staff training for employment tribunal litigation and process.

Maria Eagle: The total spent since the inception of the Commission on the 1 October 2007 on staff training for employment tribunal litigation and process is £210. This was for an external course-part of the Law Society mandatory Continuous Professional Development requirement for Solicitors.
	Commission staff receive support from the Commission's in-house Corporate Law Team, which provides advice, guidance and support in relation to employment tribunal litigation and process.

Dignity At Work Policy: Accompanying Communications Strategy

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Minister for Women and Equality if she will place in the Library a copy of the Equality and Human Rights Commission's  (a) Dignity at Work policy and  (b) accompanying communications strategy.

Maria Eagle: The Commission's Dignity at Work policy has not yet been finalised. It is due to be completed in March 2010. When the policy has been finalised I will place a copy in the Library, together with any accompanying communications strategy.

SOLICITOR-GENERAL

Departmental Energy

Daniel Rogerson: To ask the Solicitor-General what steps the Law Officers' Departments plan to take to participate in the Earth Hour event on 27 March 2010.

Vera Baird: The Attorney-General's Office and Treasury Solicitor's Department have registered to participate in Earth Hour on Saturday 27 March 2010, and will be taking active steps to ensure that all non-essential lighting is powered down during the event.
	The remaining Law Officers' Departments have not actively pledged to take part in the event but most have existing systems in place to ensure that all non-essential power is switched off during the weekend.

Departmental Theft

Tom Watson: To ask the Solicitor-General how many thefts from the Law Officers' Departments have been recorded in the last two years.

Vera Baird: The Law Officers' Departments have recorded 64 instances of theft during the last two years.

Special Advocates

Andrew Dismore: To ask the Solicitor-General pursuant to the answer of 22 February 2010,  Official Report, column 245W, on special advocates, in how many cases special advocates were used; on how many court or tribunal days special advocates were used; and what the total cost of the use of special advocates was in each of the categories listed in the question.

Vera Baird: The information requested is not recorded centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

TRANSPORT

Automatic Number Plate Recognition

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport with reference to the answer of 7 July 2009,  Official Report, column 644W, on parking fines, which local authorities use automatic number plate recognition technology for  (a) civil parking enforcement and  (b) traffic lane enforcement, according to records held by his Department; and on what date each local authority was certified to use such technology.

Sadiq Khan: Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology is not a required feature of a civil enforcement system, and any system that relied solely on ANPR evidence would not comply with the relevant legislation. Although the Department for Transport does not require information about the use of ANPR in all circumstances, our records show that the following local authorities use ANPR to assist the visual identification of vehicles when the evidence is reviewed and, in some cases, to prompt the recording of evidence.
	
		
			  (a) Traffic Management Act 2004-civil parking enforcement 
			  Applicant  "Approved Device" certification granted 
			 Nottingham city council 16 June 2008 
			 London borough of Hackney 30 March 2009 
			 Bournemouth borough council 9 June 2009 
			 Basildon district council 7 July 2009 
		
	
	
		
			  (b) Transport Act 2000-civil bus lane enforcement 
			  Traffic authority  "Approved Device" certification granted 
			 Nottingham city council 20 December 2007 
			 London borough of Hackney 30 March 2009 
			 Reading borough council 6 July 2009 
			 Essex county council 28 July 2009 
			 Bournemouth borough council 21 October 2009 
			 Bath and North East Somerset council 19 November 2009 
			 Liverpool city council 5 January 2010

Cars: Essex

David Amess: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many registered car owners there were in  (a) Southend and  (b) Essex in each year since 1997.

Paul Clark: The following table provides the number of licensed private cars registered within the local authorities of  (a) Southend-on-Sea and  (b) the county of Essex on the 31 December each year from 1997 to 2008.
	
		
			  Number 
			   Southend-on-Sea  Essex 
			 1997 58,235 538,188 
			 1998 59,337 551,774 
			 1999 61,057 569,300 
			 2000 62,075 587,935 
			 2001 64,093 608,629 
			 2002 65,945 623,752 
			 2003 67,517 627,595 
			 2004 68,696 638,334 
			 2005 69,465 648,379 
			 2006 69,844 656,613 
			 2007 70,196 665,074 
			 2008 70,604 672,265 
		
	
	The Department for Transport holds no specific information on registered car owners and it should be noted that individual car owners may own multiple cars.
	Data for 2009 will be published at the end of April 2010.

Driving Offences: Local Government

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many cases heard by the Traffic Penalty Tribunal were brought by local authorities in respect of their own vehicles in the last 36 months.

Sadiq Khan: This information is not held by central Government.

Driving under Influence: Crime Prevention

Stewart Hosie: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of instances of drink driving.

Paul Clark: There is stringent legislation around drink driving, with a minimum of 12 month ban for drivers found over the prescribed alcohol limit for driving. We have worked closely with the police on enforcement, such as equipping police forces with new digital breathalysers, and in making the links between police campaigns and our drink-drive advertising. This long-term strategy has helped deliver more than a 75 per cent. reduction in drink-drive related deaths and serious injuries since 1980.
	The Government consulted last year on a number of further measures to reduce drink-related casualties in the Road Safety Compliance document, the results of which will feed into the Government's post-2010 Road Safety Strategy to be published later this year.
	The Department for Transport also announced in December that it had commissioned an independent review of drink and drug driving legislation. As far as drink driving is concerned, the review, led by Sir Peter North, is examining the case for changes to the current provisions, including options for reducing the legal alcohol limit for drivers. The study is also considering the likely impact of such changes on driver behaviour. Sir Peter has been asked to report by the end of March and the Government will then consult on his findings before finalising and publishing the new road safety strategy.
	Copies of the Road Safety Compliance consultation document and the terms of reference for the North review have been placed in the Libraries of the House.
	In addition to these steps, the Department for Transport is developing a new multi-media publicity campaign targeting drivers who continue to mix drinking and driving. We are aiming to launch the campaign in summer 2010.

Driving: Licensing

Stephen Crabb: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport if he will make it his policy to collect information on the country of issue of driving licences held by drivers involved in traffic accidents.

Paul Clark: The collection of information about driving licences held by drivers involved in traffic accidents was considered as part of the latest review of personal injury road casualties statistics collected by the police on behalf of the Department. The review has to consider user needs against the additional burden and practicality of collection. A copy of the summary review report, published on 4 February 2010, has been placed in the House Library.
	The review proposed a new variable to identify whether a driver has a valid licence. No further details of the licence, including country of issue, will be collected as part of the statistics form. The introduction of a new electronic collision reporting system for the police from 2011 may enable further information on driving licences held by drivers involved in traffic accidents to be obtained in the future.

Exhaust Emissions

Norman Baker: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what estimate he has made of the total carbon dioxide emissions from trains in the last 10 years; and what projection he has made of such emissions from trains in the next  (a) 10,  (b) 20 and  (c) 50 years.

Sadiq Khan: Rail carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions for the last 10 years can be found at:
	http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/statistics/climate_change/gg_emissions/uk_emissions/2008_final/2008_final.aspx
	The source of the data is AEA/Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).
	Projected CO2 (ktonnes) emissions in GB, as published in the Carbon Pathways Analysis document by the Department for Transport are shown in the following table:
	
		
			   2014  2020  2022 
			   Min  Max  Min  Max  Min  Max 
			 Passenger rail 2,730 2,895 2,988 3,136 3,018 3,168 
			 Passenger rail-electric 1,450 1,540 1,584 1,665 1,596 1,678 
			 Passenger rail-diesel 1,280 1,355 1,404 1,472 1,422 1,491 
			 Freight rail 569 600 607 640 618 651 
			 Total rail 3,298 3,495 3,594 3,776 3,636 3,819 
			  Source: Carbon Pathways Analysis, Figure 2.10, page 33 http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/sustainable/analysis.pdf 
		
	
	Projected carbon emissions are on a different basis from the historic figures. The former are based on data from the Office of Rail Regulation, while the latter are from the UK's Greenhouse Gas Inventory.

Exhaust Emissions

Norman Baker: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what estimate he has made of the total carbon dioxide emissions from  (a) domestic and  (b) international aviation in the UK in the last 10 years; and what projection he has made of the emissions from (i) domestic and (ii) international aviation in the UK in the next (A) 10, (B) 20 and (C) 50 years.

Sadiq Khan: Aviation carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions for the last 10 years can be found at:
	http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/statistics/climate_chanqe/gg_emissions/uk_emissions/2008final/2008_final.aspx
	The source of the data is AEA/Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).
	The following table shows the Departments latest forecasts for international, domestic and total CO2 emissions from flights departing from UK airports in 10, 20 and 50 years.
	Aviation emission forecasts:
	
		
			  Million tonnes 
			   2020  2030  2060 
			 Total International CO2 47.1 54.5 54.0 
			 Total Domestic CO2 3.2 3.9 5.0 
			 Total CO2 50.3 58.4 59.0 
			  Notes: 1. Data are for UK departures only. 2. These forecasts refer to the central demand scenario s12s2, with Stansted R2 in 2015 and Heathrow R3 around 2020, as presented in "UK Air Passenger Demand and CO2 Forecasts", January 2009. 3. These CO2 forecasts include freight, APU and a residual adjustment to ensure consistency with the DECC outturn estimate.

Exhaust Emissions

Norman Baker: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what estimate he has made of the total carbon dioxide emissions from road transport in the last 10 years; and what projection he has made of such emissions from road transport in the next  (a) 10,  (b) 20 and  (c) 50 years.

Sadiq Khan: Road transport carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions for the last 10 years can be found at:
	http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/statistics/climate_change/gg_emissions/uk_emissions/2008_final/2008_final.aspx
	The source of the data is AEA/Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).
	The Department for Transport's most recent forecasts of total road transport carbon dioxide emissions for England were produced as part of the road transport forecasts for 2010, 2015, and 2025. These are available in 'Road Traffic Forecasts 2008: Results from the Department for Transport's National Transport Model', which is available at:
	http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/economics/ntm/roadtransportforcasts08/rtf08.pdf

Roads: Accidents

Robert Syms: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport whether he has made an estimate of the number of  (a) pedestrians and  (b) cyclists injured in road traffic accidents in which the use of a personal music device was a contributory factor in the last five years.

Paul Clark: The information requested is not collected by the Department for Transport.

Roads: Accidents

David Amess: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many road traffic accidents were recorded in  (a) Essex and  (b) Southend in each year since 1997.

Paul Clark: The information requested is given in the following table.
	
		
			  Reported personal injury road accidents in Essex and Southend: 1997  to  2008 
			   Essex( 1)  Southend 
			 1997 6,886 692 
			 1998 6,821 698 
			 1999 6,843 717 
			 2000 6,985 745 
			 2001 6,773 686 
			 2002 6,408 656 
			 2003 6,182 612 
			 2004 6,131 571 
			 2005 5,595 540 
			 2006 5,330 523 
			 2007 5,004 466 
			 2008 4,455 450 
			 (1) Essex county, including the unitary authorities of Southend and Thurrock

Roads: Tolls

Lee Scott: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on a national satellite-based road pricing scheme.

Sadiq Khan: Department for Transport Ministers last had discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on a national satellite-based road pricing scheme in the context of the Budget 2008 announcement of an invitation to the private sector to run a number of projects based on charging by time of day, distance travelled and route chosen.

ENVIRONMENT FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS

Air Pollution

Graham Stringer: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps his Department is taking towards the achievement of public service agreement 28 on ambient air quality.

Jim Fitzpatrick: In the delivery agreement document for this public service agreement (PSA) published in October 2007 DEFRA said it will take forward actions under the UK air quality strategy and implement the EU air quality directives.
	The Department will also take forward the review of the national air quality strategy to identify potential new policy measures to provide further health benefits and help move closer towards the strategy's air quality objectives. DEFRA will integrate environmental objectives, such as air quality targets, and sustainable development into policies and practice, and promote these across government, the UK and internationally. DEFRA will continue to work with partners in the EU and internationally on actions and measures to tackle national and transboundary air pollution.
	Further detail on the PSA is available in the Treasury booklet "PSA Delivery Agreement 28: Secure a healthy natural environment for today and the future" available from the Treasury website at:
	http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/pbr_csr07_psa28.pdf

Air Pollution

Graham Stringer: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which areas of the country he expects to be compliant with EU limits on ambient air concentrations of particulates and nitrogen oxide at the conclusion of the term of the renewable energy strategy.

Jim Fitzpatrick: The renewable energy strategy is the Government's comprehensive action plan for achieving the UK's share of the EU 2020 renewable energy target. It was published in July 2009 alongside the low carbon transition plan.
	Projections of air quality, which exclude the impact of the renewable energy strategy, indicate that the UK is expected to be in full compliance with limit values for particulate matter in 2020, and that exceedences of limit values for nitrogen dioxide will be confined to a small number of roadside locations in London. These exceedences are associated with road transport emission sources.
	Emission projections which include policies contained within the low carbon transition plan and the renewable energy strategy indicate a small net increase in the emission of oxides of nitrogen due to increased uptake in combined heat and power units, and no change in relation to emissions of particulate matter. While a full exceedences assessment has not yet been undertaken based on these emissions projections, it is thought unlikely that there will be any impact on the extent of limit value exceedences in 2020.
	DEFRA and DECC have worked closely to identify policies within the renewable energy strategy that may impact on air quality. For example, the renewable heat incentive proposes a maximum emissions standard for biomass boilers below 20MW to minimise any detrimental impact on air quality in urban areas.

Fertiliser Industry Assurance Scheme

Daniel Kawczynski: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what his most recent estimate is of the cost to his Department of the fees charged by Product Authentication International in respect of the Fertiliser Industry Assurance scheme.

Jim Fitzpatrick: In respect of the Fertiliser Industry Accreditation scheme, the companies participating in the scheme pay for the fees charged by Product Authentication International. For this reason, there are no costs to DEFRA or any Government Department.

Fertiliser Industry Assurance Scheme

Daniel Kawczynski: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what his latest assessment is of the financial effects on individual farms of the Fertiliser Industry Assurance scheme; and if he will make a statement.

Jim Fitzpatrick: The Fertiliser Industry Assurance scheme has no direct financial effect on individual farms. The Scheme was designed specifically for the fertiliser supply chain. For this reason, there are no individual farms signed up as members of the scheme.

Food: Public Sector

Adrian Sanders: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what guidance his Department provides to public sector bodies on procuring meat and dairy products that are free range or produced to standards equivalent to those of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Freedom Food scheme.

Jim Fitzpatrick: Guidance produced under DEFRA's Public Sector Food Procurement Initiative encourages all public sector bodies to, and shows how they can, specify higher animal welfare standards, including farm assurance schemes and higher level schemes such as the RSPCA's Freedom Foods standards.

Waste Disposal

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the  (a) functions and  (b) purposes are of (i) the Waste and Resources Action Programme and (ii) the Waste Improvement Network; and whether each body has provided guidance to local authorities on (A) adopting alternate weekly rubbish collections and (B) restricting residual refuse container capacity.

Dan Norris: The Waste Improvement Network is a service for local authority waste officers and members. It provides information, advice, guidance and support to its members, including networking possibilities and advice on working in partnerships.
	The Waste Improvement Network does not provide advice on the issues listed in the question, but it does share information and good practice between councils and to that end it has published surveys and case studies on the impact of restricting residual waste i.e. on increasing recycling and reducing overall waste arisings per household.
	The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) works with businesses and individuals to: help them reap the benefits of reducing waste, develop sustainable products and use resources in an efficient way. It is WRAP'S aim to create the case for change, support change and deliver change. WRAP'S Business Plan is available on the WRAP website and provides more information about its functions and purposes. WRAP, through its local authority support programme, also provides direct support and advice to individual local authorities on all aspects of their collection and recycling services. Advice is provided at the request of local authorities and this has included advising on options for improving recycling and reducing refuse.
	WRAP published guidance on alternate weekly collections in July 2007. This guidance makes reference to other options for restricting refuse capacity including that of maintaining weekly collections but providing smaller containers for refuse. This guidance document is also available on the WRAP website.

Waste Disposal: East of England

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what funding  (a) his Department and  (b) the Waste and Resources Action Programme has given to the East of England Waste Prevention Network since that body's inception.

Dan Norris: DEFRA has provided no funding to the East of England Waste Prevention Network.
	WRAP has not provided any funding to the East of England Waste Prevention Network, but did provide the Network with consultancy support and advice on local communications and promotional activities linked to the East of England's involvement in the European Week for Waste Reduction in November 2009.

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Malaria

David Tredinnick: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps his Department is taking to control malaria in developing countries.

Michael Foster: The UK remains strongly committed to tackling malaria.
	That is why the Prime Minister committed in 2008 to provide over 20 million bednets by the end of 2010, to help prevent 110,000 child deaths, and our 2009 White Paper committed to provide an additional 10 million bednets each year to 2013.
	By the end of 2009, we had provided over 14 million bednets, preventing over 80,000 child deaths.

Jamaica and Nigeria: Development Aid

Philip Hollobone: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much development aid his Department gave to Jamaica and Nigeria in the last 12 months.

Gareth Thomas: The amount of bilateral aid provided by the Department for International Development (DFID) to Jamaica was £3.6 million and to Nigeria was £110.5 million in 2008-09.

Gleneagles Summit 2005

Virendra Sharma: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what recent assessment he has made of progress towards implementing those recommendations of the Africa Commission which were adopted at the Gleneagles summit in 2005.

Michael Foster: We regularly monitor progress against the commitments made at Gleneagles. Along with the other G8 countries, we are producing an accountability report on this progress in time for the next G8 summit in Canada. This will include the Gleneagles commitments and the other development commitments made by the G8 since 2005.

Gleneagles Summit 2005

William Bain: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what recent discussions he has had with his G8 counterparts on progress towards meeting commitments made at Gleneagles in 2005.

Michael Foster: Last week the Secretary of State for International Development met with Minister Beverley Oda to discuss issues including the aid volume commitments made at Gleneagles. The European Union's Gleneagles commitments were also discussed at the Informal Meeting of EU Development Ministers at La Granja, attended by Minister of State Gareth Thomas. While there he also had bilaterals with German Development Minister Niebel and European Development Commissioner Piebalgs. The UK will meet its aid volume commitments and continue to press others to meet their own commitments.

Departmental Public Expenditure

David Curry: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much funding his Department  (a) allocated to each Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and Creditor Reporting system code in each of its bilateral country programmes in each of the last five years and  (b) intends to allocate to each such code for each such programme in each of the next three years.

Michael Foster: The Creditor Reporting System (CRS) is overseen by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Full details of the UK return for calendar years up to 2008 is available directly from the OECD website at
	http://stats.oecd.org/qwids/
	A breakdown of the allocations of the Department for International Development's (DFID's) aid for 2009 or for future years cannot be provided at this level of detail without incurring disproportionate cost. Information on 2009 flows is due to be provided to the DAC in July.

Departmental Public Expenditure

David Curry: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much funding his Department  (a) allocated and  (b) disbursed for (i) agriculture and (ii) food security through (A) bilateral expenditure, (B) multilateral contributions and (C) research in each of the last five years; and how much it intends to disburse in each such case in each of the next three years.

Michael Foster: Details of funds disbursed by the Department for International Development (DFID) for agriculture and food security in each of the last five financial years are provided in the following table. DFID does not record funds allocated but not disbursed. These figures do not include spending on emergency humanitarian food aid.
	
		
			   2004-05  2005-06  2006-07  2007-08  2008-09 
			  Bilateral  
			 Agriculture (incl. Fisheries) 72 55 74 52 64 
			 Agriculture and RNR Research 36 33 26 27 33 
			 Food Aid and Food Security 16 18 19 36 51 
			 Rural Development 9 26 25 49 56 
			 Rural Roads - - - - 10 
			 Total Bilateral 133 132 145 164 214 
			   
			  Multilateral  
			 Agriculture (incl. Fisheries) 42 38 109 95 124 
			 Agriculture (incl. Fisheries) Research 5 4 2 4 1 
			 Food Security 26 31 27 19 14 
			 Rural Development 25 20 29 19 22 
			 Total Multilateral 98 93 166 138 161 
			   
			 Total DFID Expenditure Ag and FS 231 225 312 301 375 
			   
			 Basic Nutrition 1 1 2 9 13 
			   
			 Total DFID Expenditure Ag and FS (inc. Nutrition) 232 226 314 311 388 
		
	
	The UK Government have committed to spend £1.1 billion on agriculture and food security between 2009-10 and 2011-12. This commitment does not include spending on basic nutrition or emergency humanitarian food aid.

Falkland Islands: Oil

Clare Short: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if he will apply the rules of the extractive industries transparency initiative in relation to any oil that may be discovered in the Falkland Islands.

Michael Foster: If oil is discovered in the Falkland Islands, any revenues generated will be subject to the same rules applied by the UK Government to other revenue received from extractive industries.
	The UK Government publish all information on revenue received from oil and gas industries, including taxation revenues and this available on the HM Revenue and Customs website at
	http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/index.htm
	The UK practice of disclosure of revenue information is in line with the principles of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.

South Africa: Natural Resources

Clare Short: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if he will propose a joint commitment by the UK and South Africa to implement the extractive industries transparency initiative.

Michael Foster: The UK Government supports the extractive industries transparency initiative (EITI) and collaborates with the EITI Board and Secretariat to promote the adoption and implementation of the initiative by resource rich countries. The EITI Chairman, Peter Eigen, has recently written to President Zuma encouraging South African implementation. The UK Government have no plans to propose to the president of South Africa a joint commitment by the UK and South Africa to implement the initiative.

Sri Lanka: Overseas Aid

David Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what recent discussions his Department has had with the government of Sri Lanka on humanitarian issues.

Michael Foster: The Department for international Development (DFID) remains in regular contact with the Government of Sri Lanka on humanitarian issues. The British high commissioner to Sri Lanka and our humanitarian adviser in Colombo frequently discuss issues of concern with Government representatives and the Presidential Task Force for the Development of the North. The Foreign Secretary also raised humanitarian issues with Foreign Minister Bogollogama when they last spoke on 5 February.

ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Atomic Energy Authority: Pay

Angus Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the salary was of the Chief Executive of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority in 2007.

David Kidney: Details of remuneration for the UK Atomic Energy Authority's directors are disclosed in its annual reports and accounts.

Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to the answer of 11 January 2010,  Official Report, column 735W, on the Carbon Reduction Commitment energy efficiency scheme, what estimate he has made of the maximum potential cost to a local authority at the bottom of the Carbon Reduction Commitment league table; whether he has made an assessment of the potential effect on levels of council tax bills of that scheme; and whether those costs will be classified a new burden.

Joan Ruddock: Government have assessed the potential burdens of the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme on local authorities, and has determined that it will not constitute a new burden. Local authorities already report reductions in CO2 emissions from their estate against National Indicator 185.
	Our analysis indicates that participating local authorities should, on average, see savings through reduced energy bills outweighing administrative costs and the cost of investing in energy efficiency measures. The potential savings on energy bills are far higher than the costs incurred through CRC penalties for those at the bottom of the league table.

Climate Change: Seas and Oceans

Annette Brooke: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the likely change in sea levels attributable to climate change after 2100; and if he will make a statement.

Joan Ruddock: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fourth Assessment Report indicates that, after 2100, sea levels will continue to rise for centuries to come, mainly because of continued thermal expansion of the oceans. However, the magnitude of this rise cannot be predicted precisely because it depends on a number of factors, including the effects of future greenhouse gas emissions on temperature increases and the dynamics of ice sheet melting.
	The Netherlands Delta Committee report, published in 2008, estimated that thermal expansion and the likely contribution from land-based ice melt could cause global sea level rises in a range from 1.5 to 3 metres by 2200, compared to levels at the end of the last century. Urgent mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions would reduce projected sea level rise but not prevent it beyond 2100, so adaptation to sea level rise would also be needed.

Combined Heat and Power

Charles Hendry: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many micro-combined heat and power installations he expects to participate in the feed-in tariff scheme.

Joan Ruddock: A microCHP "pilot"-for installations with an electrical capacity of 2kW or less-will be included as part of the Feed-in tariff scheme and will provide support for the uptake of up to 30,000 domestic scale microCHP installations. Because the industry is yet to become established we will review the support level as soon as 12,000 installations is reached, which we expect to be (based on industry projections) sometime in mid-2012.

Electricity Generation

David Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much energy generated from  (a) coal,  (b) gas and  (c) nuclear sources was supplied to the National Grid in each week of January 2010.

David Kidney: Official electricity generation data are only available on a monthly basis. The latest data are for December 2009, when major power producers supplied 14,899 GWh from gas, 8,345 GWh from coal and 5,229 GWh from nuclear. electricity output data for January 2010 will be available on 25 March 2010.
	Official monthly electricity data taken from table ET5.4, at:
	http://decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/statistics/source/electricity/electricity.aspx

Energy Supply

Martin Horwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change with which energy companies he has discussed the potential contributions of oil shale to the UK's energy supply; and when he expects the British Geological Survey to complete its reassessment of potential oil and gas shale resources in the UK.

David Kidney: We have had no discussions on this issue. However my Department has asked the British Geological Survey, acting as consultants, to carry out a reassessment of potential oil and gas shale resources in the UK. We expect the results of this to be published in the second half of this year and will be making these available via DECC's Oil and Gas "Promote" website at the following address:
	https://www.og.decc.gov.uk/UKpromote/index.htm

Energy: Conservation

David Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many households resident in Stroud constituency have received assistance under the Home Energy Efficiency Scheme since its inception.

David Kidney: The following table provides information as to how many households resident in Stroud have received assistance from the Warm Front Scheme(1 )since its inception.
	(1) The Home Energy Efficiency Scheme which begun in 1991 was rebranded to the Warm Front Scheme in 2000.
	
		
			  Stroud constituency 
			   Number 
			 2000-01 119 
			 2001-02 170 
			 2002-03 168 
			 2003-04 211 
			 2004-05 199 
			 2005-06 190 
			 2006-07 231 
			 2007-08 242 
			 2008-09 347 
			 2009-10(1) 259 
			 Total 2,136 
			 (1) Up to 31 January 2010

Energy: Housing

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the take-up rate of home energy efficiency improvements in the Energy Savings Trust Penistone area project has been to date; and which such improvements are  (a) free of charge and  (b) made at a cost to the householder.

Joan Ruddock: The total take-up of home energy efficiency improvements in the Energy Saving Trust Penistone area project is 273. Of the total, 121 of these have been free and the balance, 152, have been provided at cost to the customer.

Energy: Housing

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the take-up rate of home energy efficiency improvements in the Home Energy Efficiency programme trials has been to date; and which such improvements are  (a) free of charge and  (b) made at a cost to the householder.

David Kidney: The Warm Front scheme(1) (Home Energy Efficiency scheme) is currently piloting the installation of 100 air source heat pumps and 100 installations of external wall insulation for park homes. The scheme has also piloted the installation of solar thermal heating for 125 households. The cost of these installations are fully funded by the scheme, at no cost to the participating households.
	(1) The Home Energy Efficiency scheme which begun in 1991 was rebranded to the Warm Front scheme in 2000.

Feed-in Tariffs

John Pugh: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether he has made an assessment of public  (a) awareness of and  (b) opinion on the effects on energy bills of the implementation of a feed-in-tariff scheme.

Joan Ruddock: The Government recognise that a number of its energy and climate change policies may have significant effects on energy bills. As such, analysis carried out to estimate the overall impacts on average domestic and non-domestic energy bills of the policies set out in the low carbon transition plan (including the feed-in-tariff scheme) was presented in the accompanying analytical annex. consultation on the feed in tariff (from 15 July 2009 to 15 October 2009) received over 733 responses, 53 per cent. of which were from individuals, indicating there is considerable awareness of the scheme and its impacts.
	Revised figures were published in the final impact assessment which accompanied the Government's response to the consultation.

Fuel Oil

Charles Hendry: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change 
	(1)  what recent representations he has received on the delay in the delivery of domestic heating oil to consumers; and if he will introduce measures to bring the regulation of domestic heating oil providers within the remit of Ofgem;
	(2)  what assessment he has made of the delay in the delivery of domestic heating oil as a consequence of the Christmas and new year holidays and of the snow in January and February 2010.

David Kidney: Demand for heating oil increases in cold weather. Oil distributors worked hard in challenging conditions, particularly in more remote parts of the country, to supply customers during the worst cold weather experienced for 29 years. DECC officials received representations from the Federation of Petroleum Suppliers (FPS) that heating oil distributors were facing increases in demand-at higher rates than they could make deliveries in large part as a result of the difficulties of access to properties due to ice and snow. DECC officials worked closely with FPS so that the enforcement of drivers' hours rules could be temporarily relaxed to enable deliveries to be made to customers as conditions improved.
	With regard to the question of Ofgem, the Government do not believe that bringing these fuels under regulations having similar scope to the Gas and Electricity Acts would be an appropriate and proportionate form of regulation. These Acts deal with markets where there are natural monopolies which mean that competition cannot be expected on its own to protect consumers from the risk of exploitation. In contrast, there is no natural monopoly in the distribution of heating oil. In the UK there are around 200 different fuel distributors each with a national, regional or local presence, with competition between the companies involved. Overall, the Government support the retention of a competitive market for heating oil, believing this to be in the best interests of all customers. Both general consumer protection legislation, such as the Sale of Goods Act and Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations, and competition law apply to this sector.

Natural Gas: Imports

Charles Hendry: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what projection his Department has made of the proportion of UK gas demand that will be met by imports in  (a) 2012,  (b) 2015 and  (c) 2020.

David Kidney: Projections of net annual UK gas import dependency in  (b) 2015 (43 per cent.) and  (c) 2020 (45 per cent.) were published in July 2009 in Table 19 of the analytical annex to "The UK Low Carbon Transition Plan" which is (only) available online at
	http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/publications/lc_trans_plan/lc_trans_plan.aspx
	The equivalent estimate for  (a) 2012 is 39 per cent. These projections of net annual import dependency are in line with the projections of post-transition plan net UK gas demand and net UK gas production shown in chart 22 of the analytical annex. The Department updates its projections of both UK gas demand and production from time to time so these estimates of future import dependency are subject to revision.

Renewable Energy

Charles Hendry: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what figures are represented in chart  (a) 2.1 on page 39 and  (b) 2.4 on page 44 of The UK Renewable Energy Strategy, Cm 7686.

David Kidney: The data behind the charts referred to comes from the analysis for the Renewable Energy Strategy. It is reproduced in tabular format as follows. A copy of this PQ will be placed in the Libraries of the House.
	
		
			  Data behind chart 2.1 on page 39 of the Renewable Energy Strategy-renewable energy deployment in TWh of energy generation/use 
			   2008  2020 (current policies)  2020 (new policies) 
			 Renewable heat 7.3 7.5 72.1 
			 Renewable transport 9.3 23.1 49.4 
			 Renewable electricity 22.3 55.6 117.0 
			 Total 38.9 86.1 238.5 
			  Note: Electricity includes non RO 
		
	
	
		
			  Data behind chart 2.4 on page 44 of the Renewable Energy Strategy-renewable electricity deployment in GW of installed capacity 
			   2008  2020 
			 Onshore Wind 2.8 14.4 
			 Offshore Wind 0.6 13.0 
			 Bioenergy 1.7 3.3 
			 Wave and Tidal 0.0 1.3 
			 Hydro 1.6 2.1 
			 Other 0.0 0.2 
			 Small Scale electricity (non RO) 0.0 3.8 
			 Total 6.8 38.2

UK-Indonesia Working Group on Environment and Climate Change

Martin Horwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much funding he has allocated to the work of the UK-Indonesia Working Group on Environment and Climate Change; when and where the group will next meet; and which civil society organisations are expected to participate in the group.

Joan Ruddock: In this financial year (2009-10) DECC has allocated just over £18,500 to the work of the UK-Indonesia Working Group on Environment and Climate Change. The second meeting of the Group will be hosted by the Indonesian Government in July 2010. This is a Working Group between the UK and Indonesian Governments and as such no civil society organisations are expected to participate in the meetings.
	The UK Government have an overarching memorandum of understanding covering its work with Indonesia in addressing climate change. Provision is made within this for enhancing capacity building and engagement of key stakeholders, including civil society, compatible with strategic directions developed under the Indonesian National Climate Change Council.

WALES

Departmental Advertising

Angus Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how much was spent on advertising by  (a) his Department and  (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which his Department is responsible in 2009.

Peter Hain: The Wales Office does not have any non-departmental public bodies or executive agencies, and we have not spent anything on advertising in 2009.

Departmental Plants

David Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how much his Department spent on pot plants in  (a) 2007-08,  (b) 2008-09 and  (c) 2009-10.

Peter Hain: Nil.

Departmental Theft

Tom Watson: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many thefts from his Department have been recorded in the last two years.

Peter Hain: During the last two years there has been one recorded theft from my Department.

HEALTH

Accident and Emergency Departments: Alcoholic Drinks

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether his Department has  (a) commissioned and  (b) evaluated research on the proportion of accident and emergency admissions on Friday and Saturday nights attributable to alcohol-related incidents.

Gillian Merron: The Department has not commissioned research on the proportion of alcohol-related accident and emergency (A&E) attendances on Friday and Saturday nights. However, in March 2008, as part of its review of the impact of the Licensing Act 2003, the Government looked at the impact of alcohol and the new licensing act on A&E services.
	The review noted that
	"Alcohol-related demands on A&E services appear to have been stable in aggregate, though some individual hospitals have seen increased demand, others a fall."

Autism: Health Services

Andrew MacKinlay: To ask the Secretary of State for Health 
	(1)  what assistance his Department plans to provide to local authorities and primary care trusts to develop  (a) local autism teams and  (b) local planning groups as part of implementation of the adult autism strategy; and if he will make a statement;
	(2)  when he will publish the delivery plan for the adult autism strategy; and if he will make a statement.

Phil Hope: It will be for each local area to develop its own commissioning plan for services for adults with autism-building on the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment.
	The delivery plan, scheduled for publication by the end of March 2010, will set out in more detail the timescale for delivery in the first year, including examples of possible structures for such boards, drawing on best practice that already exists around the country.
	Further delivery plans will be prepared for the second and third years of the strategy.

Dementia

Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what mechanisms are in place to identify people with dementia when they are admitted to general hospitals; and whether steps are taken to provide additional care for those people in respect of  (a) dehydration and  (b) confusion during their stay.

Phil Hope: The National Dementia Strategy calls for all acute trusts to identify a clinical lead for dementia to take the lead for quality improvements in dementia in hospitals, including the development of an explicit care pathway for the treatment and care of people with dementia in hospital.

Dementia

Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what written information is provided to people with dementia and their carers  (a) at the point of diagnosis and  (b) by a general practitioner during subsequent consultations.

Phil Hope: Provision of information to people with dementia and their carers was identified as a priority in the National Dementia Strategy. The Strategy states that following diagnosis people with dementia should be given access to information. The demonstrator site pilots are also looking at how to provide information to people with dementia following a diagnosis.
	The Department has commissioned the Alzheimer's Society to bring together evidence about information that people need following diagnosis and report back to the Department on what might be done to improve the information available. The results of this review are expected shortly.

Dementia

Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people are recorded on the Quality and Outcomes Framework registers kept by general practitioners as having dementia; and what estimate he has made of the number of carers of those patients who have been reviewed by a general practitioner within 15 months of the diagnosis of the person for whom they act as carer.

Phil Hope: In 2008-09 there were 232,430 people with a diagnosis of dementia, recorded on practice disease registers in England under the national Quality and Outcome Framework scheme.
	No data are held on the number of carers of people with a diagnosis of dementia. However, guidance issued to support the Quality and Outcome Framework makes clear that practices in reviewing the needs of people diagnosed with dementia should focus on support needs of both the patient and their carer.
	In 2008-09 there were 169,438 people diagnosed with dementia whose care had been reviewed in the previous 15 months and for whom practices received a reward payment under the national Quality and Outcome Framework.

Departmental Data Protection

Christine Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he plans to revise his Department's Caldicott Guardian Manual 2006 on data sharing.

Mike O'Brien: The Department's Caldicott Guardian Manual has recently been revised in collaboration with the UK Council of Caldicott Guardians. The revised manual will be published shortly.

Health Services

Mark Simmonds: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects the designation of specialist providers as recommended in the Carter Report of 2006 to have been completed.

Mike O'Brien: There has been a lot of progress in specialised commissioning since the publication of Sir David Carter's Review of Specialised Commissioning Arrangements for Specialised Services in 2006. Specialised Commissioning Groups (SCGs) are working towards designating providers of specialised services.
	To date, national designation standards have been agreed for five specialised services. The National Specialised Commissioning Group is due to consider a plan for the development of further designation standards at its meeting on 3 March 2010. This plan will make recommendations about which sets of designation material are a priority for development. It will remain for individual SCGs to decide which services they choose to designate locally, a decision based on local priorities and discussion with their constituent primary care trusts.

Health Services

Mark Simmonds: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what progress has been made towards implementation of the 2008-09 Operating Framework which required specialised commissioning groups to create pooled budgets for commissioning specialised services.

Mike O'Brien: Some Specialised Commissioning Groups (SCGs) operate a system of pooled budgets for some services. Others, while not formally contributing to a shared budget, are working towards the principle of risk-sharing.
	The SCG Finance Network which includes representatives from each of the 10 SCGs have a work stream on pooled budgets. They are currently mapping the position in each SCG.

Health Services

Mark Simmonds: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what mechanisms are in place to assure the performance of  (a) specialised commissioning groups and  (b) the national commissioning group under the World Class Commissioning programme.

Mike O'Brien: In 2009, a system for examining the skills and capabilities of specialised commissioners was developed, closely based on the primary care trust commissioning assurance process. This has been made available on a voluntary basis to strategic health authorities for them to assess specialised commissioning groups. The national specialised commissioning team is based within NHS London and could be assessed using the same system with some adaptations. The national specialised commissioning group is an advisory group reporting to Ministers on the commissioning of specialised services and the assurance process would not be suitable to assess its performance.
	Strategic health authorities also assure the performance of specialised commissioning groups on an ongoing basis as part of their management of the local national health service.

Health Services: Crown Dependencies

Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects to publish his Department's review of the discontinuance of reciprocal health arrangements with the Crown Dependencies.

Gillian Merron: The review of the ending of the reciprocal healthcare agreement with the Isle of Man will take place in the autumn, around six months after the ending of the agreement. We will publish the findings as soon as we are able following completion of that review.

Health Services: Equality

Howard Stoate: To ask the Secretary of State for Health who the members are of the Cross-Government Health Inequalities Programme Board.

Gillian Merron: The Cross-Government Health Inequalities Programme Board is a director-general level board. Its remit is to oversee the development of a cross-government health inequalities strategy post-2010 following the report of the Marmot review (the Post-2010 Strategic Review of Health Inequalities).
	Its members are:
	Una O'Brien (Chair)-Department of Health
	Helen Bailey-HM Treasury
	Tom Jeffery-Department for Children, Schools and Families
	Irene Lucas-Communities and Local Government
	Sue Owen-Department of Works and Pensions
	Mike Anderson-Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	Stephen Rimmer-Home Office
	Stephen Marston-Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	Helen Edwards-Ministry of Justice
	Chris Wormald-Cabinet Office
	Andrew Ramsay-Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	Steve Gooding-Department for Transport
	Lionel Jarvis-Ministry of Defence
	Jonathan Rees-Government Equalities Office
	The following observers attend from the devolved administrations:-
	Harry Burns-Chief Medical Officer, Scottish Government
	Chris Tudor-Smith-Head of Public Health Improvement Division, Welsh Assembly Government
	Andrew Elliott-Director, Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, Northern Ireland
	A Secretariat to the Board is provided by the Department of Health.

Health Services: Isle of Man

Andrew MacKinlay: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether subordinate legislation is required to give effect to the decision of the UK Government to end the reciprocal health agreement between the UK and the Isle of Man with effect from 1 April 2010; and if he will make a statement.

Gillian Merron: No subordinate legislation is required to give effect to the decision to end the reciprocal healthcare agreement between the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man. The UK Government agreed a one year notice period with the Isle of Man Government to end the agreement, double the six months notice period contained within the agreement.

Health Services: Isle of Man

Andrew MacKinlay: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will negotiate an agreement with the Isle of Man Government to ensure that elderly persons and chronically sick and disabled persons who wish to make visits between the UK and the Isle of Man will continue to be eligible for free emergency hospital admission and treatment in either jurisdiction, providing that they are unable to obtain travel and health insurance at a reasonable cost due to their medical condition.

Gillian Merron: The UK Government have committed to working with the Isle of Man Government to carry out a review of the ending of the reciprocal healthcare agreement with the Isle of Man. The review will take place around six months after the agreement ends and will address any unforeseen consequences, including access to insurance. Accident and emergency treatment will continue to be free.

Health Services: Isle of Man

Andrew MacKinlay: To ask the Secretary of State for Health 
	(1)  with reference to paragraph seven of the Minister of State's letter of 22 January 2010 to the Co-chair of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly on the UK's decision to terminate reciprocal health arrangements with the Isle of Man with effect from 1 April 2010, under what arrangements free emergency hospital admission and treatment will continue to be afforded to visitors to the Isle of Man who are visitors to the UK from a country which has a bilateral healthcare agreement with the UK; and if he will make a statement;
	(2)  with reference to paragraphs six and seven of the Minister of State's letter of 22 January 2010 to the co-chair of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly, under what agreement or authority  (a) all UK pensioners visiting the Isle of Man who have lawfully lived in the UK for 10 continuous years will receive free emergency hospital treatment and admission and  (b) there will be no variation in such provision following the termination of the reciprocal health arrangement; and if he will make a statement.

Gillian Merron: Free emergency hospital treatment will continue to be afforded to visitors to the United Kingdom from a country with which the UK has a reciprocal healthcare agreement. This provision does not extend to those visiting the Isle of Man, given that is not part of the UK.
	The exemption from national health service charges for UK pensioners who have previously lived in the UK for 10 continuous years, under the national heath service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 1989, as amended, applies only to UK pensioners visiting the UK. It does not apply to UK pensioners visiting destinations outside of the UK, including the Isle of Man.

Hospitals: Admissions

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Health 
	(1)  how many people of each age were admitted to hospital for injuries sustained as a result of an assault by  (a) a sharp object and  (b) a blunt object on school premises in each year since 1997;
	(2)  how many people of each age were admitted to hospital for injuries sustained as a result of an assault by bodily force on school premises in each year since 1997;
	(3)  how many people of each age were admitted to hospital for injuries sustained as a result of an assault of having been hit, struck, kicked, twisted or scratched by another person on school premises in each year since 1997;
	(4)  how many people of each age were admitted to hospital for injuries sustained as a result of an assault involving  (a) a knife,  (b) a sword and  (c) a dagger on school premises in each year since 1997;
	(5)  how many people of each age were admitted to hospital for injuries sustained as a result of gunshot wounds caused by  (a) a rifle,  (b) a shotgun and  (c) a larger firearm on school premises in each year since 1997;
	(6)  how many people of each age were admitted to hospital for injuries sustained as a result of an attack by a dog on school premises in each year since 1997;
	(7)  how many people of each age were admitted to hospital for injuries sustained as a result of gunshot wounds caused by a handgun on school premises in each year since 1997;
	(8)  how many people of each age have been admitted to hospital for injuries sustained by assault by  (a) hanging,  (b) strangulation and  (c) suffocation on school premises in each year since 1997.

Diana Johnson: I have been asked to reply.
	Information on assaults which take place on school premises and result in hospital admission is not collected centrally.

NHS: Finance

Paul Rowen: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether efficiency savings targets will be set for each strategic health authority for the purposes of making savings of between £15 and £20 billion between 2011 and 2014.

Mike O'Brien: There are no plans to set targets for individual strategic health authorities for this purpose.

Scarborough and North East Yorkshire NHS Trust: Translation Services

Greg Knight: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much was spent on translation staff and services by Scarborough and North East Yorkshire NHS Trust in each of the last three years.

Ann Keen: This information is not held centrally. However, it should be available directly from the Scarborough and North East Yorkshire NHS Trust.

Supranuclear Palsy

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether his Department  (a) has commissioned,  (b) plans to commission and  (c) has evaluated (i) UK-based and (ii) international research into causes of progressive supranuclear palsy; and if he will make a statement.

Gillian Merron: The Department's policy research programme is funding a £2 million long-term neurological conditions research initiative. The initiative is investigating the care needs and experiences of those living with neurological conditions. It includes a study focusing on the needs of people suffering, from progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP).
	The Medical Research Council is similarly funding a number of projects specifically concerned with PSP; and supports a broad portfolio of research relating to neurodegenerative disorders that includes two major projects that, whilst addressing the wider topic, specifically mention they are of relevance to PSP.

Swine Flu: Vaccination

David Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether those diagnosed with  (a) myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and  (b) symptoms associated with ME have automatic access to swine influenza vaccination.

Gillian Merron: Patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) or chronic fatigue syndrome are not routinely included in the clinical risk groups for vaccination for H1N1 swine influenza. These conditions are not known to increase the severity or duration of community acquired infections, such as influenza. Therefore, these conditions are not routinely regarded as causing immunosuppression, which is one of the conditions in the clinical risk categories. However, general practitioners (GPs) should take into account the risk of influenza infection exacerbating any other underlying disease that a patient may have, as well as the risk of serious illness from influenza itself. GPs should consider on an individual basis the clinical needs of their patients.

DEFENCE

Air Force: Military Aircraft

Liam Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many fixed wing aircraft were in the effective fleet in  (a) 1997 and  (b) 2010.

Quentin Davies: The following table shows the combined number of fixed wing aircraft of all three services that were planned to be in service at the end of March 1997 and the number of fixed wing aircraft in actual service at the end of January 2010.
	
		
			  Role  March 1997  January 2010 
			 Fast Jet (Excluding Hawk) 408 297 
			 Tanker, Transport and Communications 111 92 
			 ISTAR and Maritime Patrol 45 18 
			 Training (Including Hawk) 477 404 
		
	
	Since 1997 Sea Harrier and Jaguar aircraft have been withdrawn from service and Tornado F3 continues to drawdown. A number of Training and ISTAR aircraft types used in 1997 have either been replaced by contractor owned fleets or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles which are not included in the answer.
	Deliveries are continuing of the more capable Typhoon aircraft and an additional C17 aircraft is on order. FSTA, A400M, Nimrod MRA4 and Joint Strike Fighter are planned to enter service over the next decade.

Armed Forces: Equal Opportunities

Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what his Department's policy is on equal opportunities in the armed forces; how his Department implements that policy; and what assessment he has made of its effectiveness.

Kevan Jones: Equality and Diversity policy for the armed forces is set out in the Ministry of Defence Unified Diversity Strategy. This policy is implemented through the Department's published Equality and Diversity Scheme.
	The Equality and Diversity Scheme which includes an action plan sets out how we intend to meet our statutory general and specific Race, Disability and Gender Equality Duties. This scheme demonstrates our continued commitment to our equality and diversity agenda, making equality and diversity integral to all our policies, functions and services. We publish an Annual Report against the scheme setting out the progress being made against the targets set out in the action plan.

Armed Forces: Training

Liam Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many training exercises originally planned for 2010 have been cancelled; and what the reasons are for each cancellation.

Bill Rammell: Success in Afghanistan is our main effort, and will remain our principal commitment for as long as it takes. Our approach at this time must be-and is-Afghanistan first. All exercises that better prepare our forces for operations in Afghanistan will continue but those exercises that are considered not to directly support our effort have been examined critically and, where appropriate, cancelled.
	The following table advises those exercises that have been cancelled.
	 Exercise
	Jordan Express
	Malaysian Express
	Steppe Eagle
	Cossack Steppe
	French Connection
	Tricolour
	Asterix
	Winged Star
	Glow Worm/Rattlesnake
	Gobi Dust
	African Thorn
	Oman Express
	Bald Eagle
	Chartered Flight
	Citadel
	Crown Eagle
	Destier/Aurige
	Devils Hat
	Devils Horizon
	First Eagle
	First Rock
	Guibert
	Horizon
	Kleiber
	Gaulish
	Longboat Warrior
	Larksong Foxtrot
	Marble Tor
	Medoc
	Modulex
	Pathfinder
	Pony Express
	Ponte Vecchio/Tower Bridge
	Readiness Challenge
	Silver Eagle
	Steam Drive
	Top Kitten
	Tunuk Warrior
	Wet Gap
	Work Sheet
	Roman Eagle
	Turtle Truss
	Lion Sun 1
	Lion Sun 2
	Lion Star 1
	Lion Star 2
	Iron Ram/Ferro Ariete
	Bass Rock
	Anatolian Eagle 10
	Green flag West 10-9
	Torpedo Focus 10-3
	Pitch Black
	Bold Avenger 10
	Exercise Blue Flag was cancelled by the host nation.
	Exercise Rimpac 10 was cancelled due to the unavailability of an airframe which has been diverted to support operations.

Armed Forces: Vehicles

Liam Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many  (a) logistics and  (b) engineering vehicles of each type were (a) in service and (b) available for operations on the latest date for which figures are available.

Quentin Davies: I am withholding the information on the numbers of vehicles available on operations for operational security reasons.
	The Department holds a huge variety of logistics and engineering vehicles. For ease these have been grouped by role and category. The overall number of vehicles in service within each category are shown in the following table:
	
		
			  Role  Total number in service 
			  Engineering  
			 Armoured Engineering 66 
			 Bridging 177 
			 Bulldozer 53 
			 Dumper Truck 265 
			 Excavator 487 
			 Forklift 20 
			 Route Engineer Plant 109 
			 Beach T/WAY Dispenser 2 
			   
			  Logistics  
			 Bulk Fuel 1,499 
			 Cargo 12,427 
			 Container Handler 31 
			 Crane 119 
			 Equipment Transporter 794 
			 Forklift 785 
			 Medical 906 
			 Recovery 388 
			 Bulk Water 79 
			 Airfield Support 472 
			 Fire Vehicles 141

Departmental Theft

Tom Watson: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many thefts from his Department have been recorded in the last two years.

Kevan Jones: The requested information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Haiti: Earthquakes

Bernard Jenkin: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence 
	(1)  what assets his Department has deployed to Haiti since the earthquake on 12 January 2010;
	(2)  how many of his Department's  (a) military and  (b) civilian personnel have been deployed to Haiti since the earthquake on 12 January 2010;
	(3)  how much his Department has spent on relief and deployments to Haiti since the earthquake on 12 January 2010.

Bill Rammell: holding answer 1 March 2010
	The Department for International Development (DfID) is leading the UK response to the Haitian earthquake: at DfID's request the Ministry of Defence (MOD) sent a Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) ship, RFA Largs Bay, to carry vital relief supplies to Haiti. RFA Largs Bay arrived in Haiti on 18 February, delivered its cargo of aid and is now engaged in further taskings in support of the World Food programme under the direction of DfID. This has been a high priority task and I trust it has been seen as a significant contribution by the Government to the international aid effort.
	The MOD deployed an Operational Liaison and Reconnaissance Team to Haiti via 2 C-130 Hercules flights to advise DfID on the capabilities of RFA Largs Bay and on what military assistance was required. DfID does not currently require any military assistance in the region beyond that already in Haiti. The MOD continues to take an active role in the UK response, and will provide further assistance where possible if required.
	Some 130 military personnel are on board the RFA Largs Bay. Five military personnel remain in Port-au-Prince in support of the ship. Eight members of a Royal Military Police close protection team for the FCO's consular Rapid Deployment Team as well as 11 military personnel and one civilian from the Operational Liaison and Reconnaissance Team were deployed initially to Haiti following the earthquake but have all since returned to the UK. A small number of UK service personnel on exchanges (with Canada, Bermuda and USA military forces) were also deployed, or were on standby to deploy, to Haiti.
	Spending by the MOD in support of Operation PANLAKE, the assistance provided by MOD to Haiti on behalf of DfID, will be recovered from DfID. At present, it is not possible to provide a final costing of the operation as the work is still being completed.

Harassment

Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many incidents of harassment have been reported by  (a) military and  (b) civilian personnel in (i) each of the armed forces and (ii) his Department in each of the last 10 years.

Bob Ainsworth: The following table reflects the number of harassment complaints reported since October 2006 for each service. Some Tri-Service defence organisations do not record the service to which the complainant belongs.
	Statistical data prior to October 2006 is not held centrally.
	
		
			  Formal harassment complaints  Royal Navy  Army  RAF  Tri-Service Organisations 
			 October 2006 to March 2007 10 52 15 0 
			 April 2007 to September 2007 21 17 21 0 
			 October 2007 to March 2008 15 39 21 0 
			 April 2008 to September 2008 29 20 27 7 
			 October 2008 to March 2009 17 34 30 5 
			 April 2009 to December 2009 26 67 27 0 
		
	
	Statistics for Tri-Service Organisations have only been collected since April 2008. Armed forces personnel statistics may also include cases raised by MOD civilians against a service person.
	The following table shows the number of formal complaints of bullying or harassment raised by MOD Civilians through the Department's Harassment and Bullying complaints procedure where investigation by a Harassment Investigation Officer has been requested.
	
		
			  Formal bullying and harassment complaints (financial year)  MOD civil service 
			 1999-2000 19 
			 2000-01 16 
			 2001-02 13 
			 2002-03 13 
			 2003-04 27 
			 2004-05 20 
			 2005-06 36 
			 2006-07 55 
			 2007-08 66 
			 2008-09 82 
			 2009-10 (to date) 60 
		
	
	Due to the way information is recorded for civilian bullying and harassment complaints, it is not possible to separate the two types of complaint except at disproportionate cost.

HMS Sheffield

James Arbuthnot: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence 
	(1)  pursuant to the answer of 20 January 2010,  Official Report, column 351W, on HMS Sheffield, if he will lay before the House the findings of the comprehensive review of the Board of Inquiry report on the sinking of HMS Sheffield;
	(2)  when he plans to answer question 315473, on the comprehensive review of the Board of Inquiry report on the sinking of HMS Sheffield, tabled on 1 February 2010.

Bill Rammell: The review of the Board of Inquiry (BOI) report into the sinking of HMS Sheffield was concerned with the provision of considered advice to the then Minister of State for the Armed Forces on which documents from the BOI report should be published.
	The findings of the review were never presented in a report; but led to the publication of the BOI report and associated papers, as announced on 2 November 2006,  Official Report, column 23WS.

International Military Services Limited: Iran

Jim Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether the legal and contractual issues between International Military Services Ltd (IMS) and the Republic of Iran have been resolved; what the outcome was; and whether IMS will now be wound up.

Bob Ainsworth: International Military Services Ltd (IMS Ltd) is a private limited company, albeit one owned by the Secretary of State for Defence. The company is under the direct control and management of a board of directors who are responsible for the conduct of its affairs. Questions on the legal and contractual issues between IMS Ltd and the republic of Iran are routinely for the company to address.
	However, I asked my officials to consult the managing director of IMS about this case. His advice is that discussions between the two parties continue, and are leading to resolution of all of the outstanding issues.
	I will update this House when these matters are fully resolved, and it is my intention at that time to wind up IMS Ltd.

Military Bases: Carbon Emissions

Angus Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what estimate he has made of the level of carbon dioxide emissions from his Department's military establishments  (a) in the UK and  (b) abroad in each year since 2005.

Kevan Jones: The Ministry of Defence's (MOD's) carbon emissions from its military establishments in the UK and abroad since 2005 are provided in the following table:
	
		
			  Tonnes CO 2 
			   UK estate  Overseas estate  Total carbon emissions 
			 2005-06 1,668,527 211,673 1,880,200 
			 2006-07 1,642,121 192,479 1,834,600 
			 2007-08 1,519,725 376,175 1,895,900 
			 2008-09 1,541,984 306,716 1,848,700 
		
	
	The increase in carbon emissions during 2007-08 and 2008-09 is because figures for the overseas estate from Gibraltar, Cyprus, Falkland Islands, Northwood in the UK and the Army overseas estate are taken into account. In previous years these figures were not included.
	The Department's headline energy figures are now published within the MOD's Defence Statistics, included for the first time in 2009. They are also published yearly in MOD's Sustainable Development Report and separately by the Sustainable Development Commission as part of their role as the Government's Sustainable Development watchdog.

Navy: Deployment

Nick Harvey: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many days each Royal Navy frigate spent on non-operational deployment for  (a) diplomatic engagements and  (b) defence industry exhibitions in each of the last five years.

Bill Rammell: The Royal Navy does not deploy with the sole aim of diplomatic engagements or defence industry exhibitions; this is done on an opportunity basis. These types of engagements are undertaken when a vessel is located in, or passing through the region. Details of these engagements for the past five years are not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Nuclear Weapons

Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for North Devon of 28 November 2007,  Official Report, column 453W, on nuclear weapons, whether any funding for the work of his Department's Warhead Pre-Concept Working Group is included in the funding allocation for the Nuclear Warhead Capability Sustainment Programme; what the cost was of work undertaken by the Warhead Pre-Concept Working Group in 2008-09 and 2009-10; and what estimate he has made of the projected cost of work scheduled to be carried out by the Working Group in the next three years.

Bob Ainsworth: The work previously co-ordinated by the Warhead Pre-Concept Working Group now forms part of studies being undertaken by Atomic Weapon Establishment under the Nuclear Warhead Capability Sustainment Programme. This is required to inform decisions, likely to be necessary in the next Parliament, on whether and how we may need to refurbish or replace our current warhead. Expenditure amounted to some £7.3 million in 2008-09 and is forecast to be some £16.5 million in 2009-10. Comparable levels of future annual expenditure are anticipated until final decisions are taken.

Nuclear Weapons

Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether any stocks of defence special nuclear materials are held at locations other than sites owned by his Department.

Bob Ainsworth: Some special nuclear material is held at sites that are not owned by the Ministry of Defence. I am withholding further information on the location of this material as its release would, or would be likely to, prejudice national security and defence in the UK.

Somalia: EU Action

Liam Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence 
	(1)  how many RAF  (a) C-17 Globemaster,  (b) C-130K Hercules,  (c) C-130J Hercules,  (d) Tristar and  (e) VC-10 aircraft will be used for the EU Training Mission for Somalia;
	(2)  what recent reports he has received on the  (a) military and  (b) financial contribution of each EU member state planning to participate in the EU Training Mission for Somalia;
	(3)  how many British service personnel of each rank in each unit in each service he expects to participate in the EU Training Mission for Somalia;
	(4)  what NATO assets he expects to be used for the EU Training Mission for Somalia under the  (a) 2003 Berlin Plus arrangements and  (b) 2002 NATO-EU Declaration on the European Security and Defence Policy;
	(5)  how much and what proportion of the funding of the EU Training Mission for Somalia his Department plans to contribute; and how much of that funding had been disbursed on 10 February 2010.

Bill Rammell: The European Union is currently undertaking detailed planning for the proposed EU Training Mission (EUTM) to Somalia and we are discussing appropriate force levels and financial contributions with our European partners. We are currently assessing possible UK contributions. We do not anticipate any UK military aircraft being used in EUTM Somalia nor do we anticipate that the mission will use any wholly owned NATO assets.
	The current anticipated costs to the UK, should the mission proceed, are around €0.7million (£0.636 million). This represents our proportion of common costs currently assessed at around 14 per cent. Of this €0.4 million (£0.364 million) had been disbursed by 10 February 2010.

Territorial Army: Deployment

Liam Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many and what percentage of Territorial Army personnel were available to be deployed on operations on the latest date for which figures are available.

Bill Rammell: As of 1 December 2009 the strength of the Territorial Army, including University Officer Training Corps cadets, was 34,520. Of the total strength approximately 1,300 are currently mobilised in support of operations. Approximately a further 19,000 are available for mobilisation, subject to their being released from their civilian commitments and completing additional pre-deployment training. This represents around 55 per cent. of total Territorial Army strength. Available for mobilisation is defined as those who have completed phase 2 training and are not bound by limitations of the Reserve Forces Act 1996.

Type 45 Destroyers

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence 
	(1)  what recent discussions has he had on the weapons systems on the new Type 45 destroyers;
	(2)  what reports he received on the recent test firing of the Type 45 missile systems; and if he will make a statement.

Quentin Davies: The Secretary of State for Defence has not personally been involved in discussions relating to Sea Viper. However, I have been briefed by industry, partner nations and officials on a number of occasions, both on the recent test firing of the Sea Viper missile system and, more generally, on the weapons systems on the new Type 45 destroyers.

OLYMPICS

Government Car and Despatch Agency

Grant Shapps: To ask the Minister for the Olympics how much the Government Olympic Executive paid to the Government Car and Despatch Agency in each year since its inception; how much it has spent on such payments in 2009-10; and what proportion of such payments was made in respect of the Government Car Service.

Tessa Jowell: Since the creation of my post in June 2007, my private office formed part of the Cabinet Office. The amount paid to the Government Car and Despatch Agency is shown in the following table:
	
		
			   Expenditure (£) 
			 2007-08 41,116.93 
			 2008-09 122,226.83 
		
	
	Figures for 2009-10 are not available until the end of the reporting year. All of this expenditure was paid to the Government Car and Despatch Agency.

Olympic Games 2012: Plants

Anne McIntosh: To ask the Minister for the Olympics what proportion of plants for landscaping of the Olympics site she expects to come from UK growers.

Tessa Jowell: Overall, the Olympic Delivery Authority estimate that approximately 90 per cent. of plants for landscaping of the Olympic Park will have come from UK suppliers.

BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS

Bankruptcy: Leeds

Greg Mulholland: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many bankruptcies of  (a) individuals in each age group resident and  (b) businesses based in Leeds North West constituency there have been in each year since 2005.

Ian Lucas: Figures for bankrupts in Leeds, North West constituency by age group since 2005 are shown in Table 1 as follows:
	
		
			  Table 1: Bankruptcies in Leeds Northwest constituency( 1) 
			   Age group( 2) 
			   Unknown  Under 25  25-34  35-44  45-54  55-64  65+ 
			 2005 6 5 18 9 6 9 2 
			 2006 3 5 15 30 7 10 3 
			 2007 4 1 13 26 19 7 3 
			 2008 12 3 18 25 17 15 5 
			 (1) Where bankrupt has provided a valid postcode (from 95.3 per cent. in 2005 to 96.9 per cent. in 2008) (2) Where bankrupt has provided a valid date of birth (from 92.1 per cent. in 2005 to 93.4 per cent. in 2008) 
		
	
	Self-employed traders may be declared bankrupt (or enter into an individual voluntary arrangement [IVA]), however, registered companies are the subject of "liquidation" (compulsory liquidation or creditors voluntary liquidation [CVL]).
	Table 2 shows the number of self employed traders who were declared bankrupt since 2005.
	
		
			  Table 2: Bankruptcies among sole traders in Leeds Northwest constituency( 1) 
			  Year( 2)  Leeds North  W est constituency 
			 2005 13 
			 2006 14 
			 2007 9 
			 2008 14 
			 (1) Where bankrupt has provided a valid postcode (from 95.3 per cent. in 2005 to 96.9 per cent. in 2008). (2) Figures from October 2006 are compiled on a different basis and are not comparable to earlier figures 
		
	
	Regional figures for 2009 are not currently available for bankruptcies, as they are compiled on an annual basis. They will be available later in 2010.
	Official statistics covering corporate insolvencies, including liquidation, are not currently available at a sub-national level within England and Wales.

Departmental Carbon Emissions

Angus Robertson: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what estimate he has made of the level of carbon emissions from his Department's buildings in each year since 2005.

Patrick McFadden: This Department is required to report performance data on carbon emissions annually as part of the Sustainable Development in Government (SDiG) reporting process.
	The latest assessment of Government's performance against targets was published by the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) on 18 December 2009, and is available on the OGC website:
	http://www.ogc.gov.uk/sustainability_programme_progress.asp
	Information on reporting years prior to 2008/09 was collated and published by the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) and can be found on the SDC website:
	http://www.sd-commission.org.uk

Further Education: Finance

Lindsay Hoyle: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what his policy is on the use by colleges of  (a) ring-fenced and  (b) general funding provided by his Department to respond to local and regional priorities; and if he will make a statement.

Kevin Brennan: The Learning and Skills Council (LSC)-and from 1 April the Skills Funding Agency-has responsibility for the funding of post 19 further education and skills delivered through colleges and training organisations.
	For 2010/11 academic year, the main funding streams available to colleges for post 19 learning are the Adult Learner Responsive and Employer Responsive budgets. Within these, Government funding is prioritised towards basic literacy and numeracy skills and full level 2 and full level 3 qualifications that provide the skills for adults to enter into and progress in employment and further learning.
	It is for the LSC to agree with colleges the broad level outcomes that they expect to deliver for this funding. The actual amount paid will depend on how colleges respond to demand from learners and employers in line with local and regional priorities. Regional skills priorities will be articulated in regional priority statements by regional development agencies.
	In addition to Adult Learner Responsive and Employer Responsive funding, some colleges and training organisations also receive Government funding to support a clearly defined set of outcomes. For example funding for the training element of the Young Person's Guarantee is to support 18 to 24-year-olds who have been unemployed for six months or longer to undertaken specific employment focussed training. The funding will therefore respond to meeting a local need.

Grimsby

Austin Mitchell: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will set out, with statistical information related as directly as possible to Great Grimsby constituency, the effects of his Department's policies on that constituency since 1997.

Patrick McFadden: The policies and actions of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), and its predecessors, have focused on building a competitive economy and on delivering prosperity and sustainable economic growth. The implementation of BIS policy in the Yorkshire and the Humber region has been taken forward primarily by the Regional Development Agency Yorkshire Forward and the Government office for Yorkshire and the Humber, working in partnership with the local authority and other relevant bodies. The Government and their regional and local partners have responded vigorously to the global recession, providing assistance to businesses and individuals. Statistical information at constituency level is limited. Information has therefore been provided for north-east Lincolnshire local authority area, which includes the Great Grimsby constituency. Examples of how BIS policies and actions have impacted on north-east Lincolnshire include:
	Levels of skills in the working age population have increased in north-east Lincolnshire since 1999 although they remain below the regional and national averages:
	Performance at NVQ Level 1 and above has increased from 67.8 per cent. to 77.9 per cent.
	Performance at NVQ Level 2 and above has increased from 46.5 per cent. to 59.2 per cent.
	Performance at NVQ Level 3 and above has increased from 29.0 per cent. to 31.6 per cent.
	Performance at NVQ Level 4 and above has increased from 14.8 per cent. to 16.8 per cent.
	The proportion of the working age population with no qualifications has decreased from 23.2 per cent. to 10.3 per cent.
	 Source
	Local Area Labour Force Survey (LALFS)/Annual Population Survey(APS)
	The stock of VAT registered businesses in north-east Lincolnshire has increased from 3,735 businesses in 1997 to 3,820 in 2007.
	 Source
	BIS VAT registrations/deregistrations by industry
	The proportion of business registrations (including VAT and PAYE) per 10,000 resident population aged 16 and above in north-east Lincolnshire has increased from 41.5 in 2002 to 42.5 in 2008.
	 Source
	BIS Enterprise Directorate Data
	The percentage of small businesses showing growth in number of employees in north-east Lincolnshire has increased from 12.3 per cent. in 2003 to 14.7 per cent. in 2008.
	 Source
	BIS National Indicator Data
	The average gross full-time weekly earnings in north-east Lincolnshire have risen from £342.30 in 2002 to £451.60 in 2009, an increase of 32 per cent.
	 Source
	Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE)
	In support of its objective of promoting business efficiency, investment and competitiveness Yorkshire Forward has provided grants for businesses through the Selective Finance for Investment (SFI) scheme, which started in April 2004, and its successor the Grants for Business Investment (GBI) scheme, which started in October 2008. Yorkshire Forward has made 24 SFI and GBI grant offers to businesses in north-east Lincolnshire totalling £7.7 million, creating or safeguarding 1,663 jobs. Yorkshire Forward has also provided grants to support research and development by small and medium-sized businesses, through the SMART scheme and its successor, the Grants for Research and Development scheme. Since 2000, Yorkshire Forward has offered five research and development grants totalling £164,852 million to small and medium-sized businesses in north-east Lincolnshire.
	Since 2008, Business Link Yorkshire has been the single contact point for all publicly funded support available to businesses in Yorkshire and the Humber. This has made it easier for businesses to access information, advice and support on issues including business regulation, best practice, marketing, innovation, financial support and help with exporting. For example in 2009/10 to date, Business Link Yorkshire has helped 1,260 businesses in the north-east Lincolnshire area and 256 individuals thinking of starting a business. As part of the Government's Real Help Now package we are providing more help for businesses to survive during the current economic conditions. Since October 2008 this has included a free Business Link health check which can be a useful starting point for identifying further business support tailored to the needs of individual companies. To date Business Link Yorkshire has arranged 373 health checks for small and medium-sized businesses in north-east Lincolnshire. In addition, the Yorkshire Forward funded Financial Health Check, which offers a grant of £2,000 for accountants to carry out a full review, has benefited 35 businesses in north-east Lincolnshire.
	BIS also supports the Local Enterprise Growth Initiative (LEGI) programme, which was announced by the Chancellor in 2005 to promote enterprise in the country's more deprived areas boosting local incomes and employment opportunities, and building sustainable communities. North-east Lincolnshire was awarded £18.7 million for its LEGI programme ("e-factor") in December 2006. Since the programme began, e-factor has, with LEGI funding:
	helped over 450 business start-ups
	given assistance to over 400 businesses
	created over 450 new jobs
	helped over 250 people off benefits
	had 30 businesses register for VAT.
	For further information on Great Grimsby, the Neighbourhood Statistics Service provides a wide range of statistical information at parliamentary constituency level, taken from the 2001 census and other sources. This service is available on the National Statistics website at
	http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/

Leave: Leeds

Greg Mulholland: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what recent estimate he has made of the number of residents of Leeds North West constituency who qualify for paid leave entitlements.

Patrick McFadden: All workers resident in Leeds North West constituency qualify for paid annual leave entitlements. The statutory minimum as set out in the working time regulations is at least 5.6 weeks.
	Numbers of workers resident in Leeds North West constituency are not available. However, according to the Annual Business Inquiry Employee Analysis by the Office for National Statistics, there were a total of 30,500 employees who worked in Leeds North West constituency (but did not necessarily live there) in 2008, who would all qualify for paid annual leave entitlement.

Local Government: Statistics

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what datasets not included within the national indicator set local authorities are required to submit to  (a) his Department and  (b) the Better Regulation Executive.

Ian Lucas: This Department, of which the Better Regulation Executive is part, does not require local authorities to submit any additional data other than that required for the national indicator set.

Maternity Leave: Essex

Bob Spink: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of women resident in  (a) Essex and  (b) Castle Point who have taken 26 weeks maternity leave since 1997.

Patrick McFadden: From April 2007 all employed mothers are entitled to 52 weeks maternity leave, of which 39 may be paid. Employers are not required to record or report the uptake of maternity leave to the Government.
	The most recent estimates of take-up of maternity leave are based on the DWP "Maternity Rights and Mothers' employment decisions in Britain: Survey of Mothers" (2007). In 2006, when the mothers included in the study went on maternity leave, the statutory entitlement to Ordinary Maternity Leave (OML) was 26 weeks, while mothers who had worked for their employer for a qualifying period of 26 weeks were also entitled to Additional Maternity Leave (AML) of 26 weeks. The Office for National Statistics estimate there were 15,370 live births in Essex in 2006.
	For mothers taking maternity leave in 2006:
	84 per cent. took 26 weeks or more maternity leave;
	35 per cent. took exactly 26 weeks maternity leave;
	46 per cent. of mothers took between 27 and 52 weeks and 3 per cent. were off for more than 52 weeks;
	16 per cent. of mothers took less than the statutory minimum entitlement (i.e. 26 weeks in 2006).
	The next "Maternity Rights" survey will be based on mothers who took maternity leave starting in summer 2008. It is due to report later in 2010. The "Maternity Rights" survey sample is not large enough to produce robust estimates at constituency or county levels.

Science

Adam Afriyie: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what the cost to the public purse of the Science: [So what? So everything] programme has been in each year since its launch; how many officials in each pay band are responsible for that programme; and what mechanisms are in place to measure the effectiveness of that programme.

David Lammy: The Science: [So what? So everything] campaign was launched on 28 January 2009. Costs in each year are as follows:
	2008-09: £601,200 ex VAT (covers period from start of campaign 28 January 2009 to end of FY)
	2009-10: £1,261,000 ex VAT (includes actual and projected costs for this FY)
	The fraction of any individual official's time dedicated to the campaign varies between less than 10 per cent. to upwards of 80 per cent. The campaign is overseen by a senior civil service manager as part of the Department's Science and Society programme.
	The following officials are responsible for the management of the campaign:
	2 x Grade 6
	1 x Grade 7
	1 x Senior Information Officer
	1 x Information Officer
	The Science: [So what] campaign is one aspect of a wider initiative to promote public engagement in science which includes support for activities like National Science and Engineering Week and the work of outside individuals and organisations who are helping to take forward the BIS Science and Society strategy. The campaign plays a part in contributing to the success of this broad-based activity. Its aim is to focus on putting science in places that it would not typically be associated with, such as consumer and tabloid media and thereby demonstrating to the public how important science is to their everyday lives
	To evaluate the effectiveness of the Science: [So what] campaign, BIS uses a range of measures, including visits to the campaign website, the extent that media coverage has reached the campaign's core audience and its return on investment for media coverage. An Ipsos-MORI survey is also being conducted with a representative sample of 2,000 people from the C2DE (lower income) core audience, in order to gauge their recognition of the campaign, its messages and the media channels used.

Science

Adam Afriyie: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much his Department spent on creating the Science: [So what? So everything] website; what estimate he has made of the annual cost of maintaining that website; how many unique visitors that website  (a) has received since its launch and  (b) receives on average each day; and how many officials in each pay band are responsible for maintaining that website.

David Lammy: The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has spent the following on creating and maintaining the Science: [So what? So everything] website:
	2008-09: £56,440 (development costs for the landing site before campaign launch 28 January 2010)
	2009-10: £235,161
	Between its launch on 28 January 2009 and 24 February 2010, the site has received:
	121,589 unique visitors
	an average of 320 unique visits per day.
	359,737 page views over the same period.
	The fraction of any individual official's time dedicated to the campaign varies between less than 10 per cent. to upwards of 80 per cent. The campaign is overseen by a senior civil service manager as part of the Department's Science and Society programme. The following officials are involved in the management of the contract for maintaining the site, with delivery contracted to an agency:
	1 x Grade 6
	1 x Information Officer

Science

Adam Afriyie: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what estimate he has made of the number of people in each age group who have attended events supported by his Department's Science: [So what? So everything] programme.

David Lammy: The Science: [So what? So everything] campaign has supported and organised a wide range of events which have attracted significant presence from people of all ages.

Science: Finance

Adam Afriyie: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what programmes and initiatives received funding from the other minor science programmes budget referred to in Table 11 of his Department's Departmental Report for 2009; and how much such funding was allocated to each such programme and initiative in the latest year for which figures are available.

David Lammy: The "Other minor science programmes" line in Table 11 of the Departmental Report covers a number of smaller programmes as detailed below. The figures for 2009-10 are:
	
		
			   £ million 
			 Public Sector Research Establishments Fund 12.5 
			 Science and Society activities 15.4 
			 Government Office for Science 2.9 
			 Contribution to the funding of the FCO Science and Innovation Network 2.9 
			 Research Base Initiatives 0.4 
			 Provision for additional allocations to NERC and STFC to cover the increased costs of international subscriptions resulting from exchange rate movements 30.0 
			 Loan Repayment 43.0 
		
	
	The loan repayment relates to an intra-Departmental loan from Departmental non-science budgets that was made in 2007-08.

Students: Disabled

Mark Harper: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills pursuant to the answer of 15 December 2009,  Official Report, column 1095W, on students: disabled, what functions Postcomm performs in relation to the delivery of financial support for disabled students; and when he expects the Chief Executive of Postcomm to write with a substantive reply.

David Lammy: holding answer 26 February 2010
	I regret that due to an administrative error the Department's Parliamentary Unit issued the wrong answer to the hon. Member's question tabled on 10 December 2009 (307712). I apologise to the hon. Member. The answer should have been:
	The Government have made available £45 million in the academic year 2009/10 through the Access to Learning Fund to provide financial support for students who need extra help to access or remain in higher education. The fund is administered by the universities and colleges which make their own decisions on how best to use their ALF allocation, including whether or not to make short-term loans (for whatever reason). Information on the uses to which the universities and colleges are putting their 2009/10 allocation is not available.

COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Business and Community Safety Forum and Practitioners' Forum

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if he will place in the Library copies of the minutes of meetings of the  (a) Business and Community Safety Forum and  (b) Practitioners' Forum held in the last 18 months.

Shahid Malik: Minutes of the Business and Community Safety Forum meetings held in the last 18 months will be placed in the Library of the House. Minutes of the Practitioners' Forum are produced by the Chief Fire Officers' Association which provides its secretariat and are available at:
	http://www.pforum.fire.gov.uk/111

Community Infrastructure Levy

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what requirements there will be on local planning authorities to update charging schedules under the Community Infrastructure Levy scheme.

Ian Austin: There will be no formal requirements for authorities to revise their charging schedules. Part 3 of the draft CIL regulations covers charging schedules. The Government's position on revising charging schedules is set out in paragraphs 3.134 and 3.135 of the CIL consultation document of July 2009, available at the following link:
	http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/planningandbuilding/pdf/communitylevyconsultation.pdf

Community Infrastructure Levy

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what steps are being taken to prevent developers being charged under both the Section 106 and Community Infrastructure Levy schemes.

Ian Austin: Regulations for the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) were laid before Parliament on 10 February 2010. If approved by Parliament, the CIL regulations will scale back planning obligations to prevent charging for the same infrastructure items through both CIL and planning obligations. Bodies operating a CIL will be required by Regulation 123 to set out what infrastructure they intend to fund through CIL and will be prevented from seeking planning obligation contributions towards those same items.

Community Infrastructure Levy

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what conditions will apply to expenditure by local planning authorities receipts from Community Infrastructure Levy which they receive from developers.

Ian Austin: Sections 205 (2) and 216 (2) of the Planning Act 2008 ring-fence CIL receipts for spending on infrastructure items that support the development of an area, subject to CIL Regulation 63, which prevents CIL being used to fund affordable housing and Regulation 61, which allows authorities to use a percentage of CIL receipts to finance the administrative costs of CIL.

Community Infrastructure Levy

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what guidance is being given to local planning authorities on the use of Grampian conditions alongside Community Infrastructure Levy to ensure development does not proceed until infrastructure has been delivered.

Ian Austin: The Government's policy on the use of planning conditions is set out in Circular 11/95. The Government launched a consultation on a new policy document on conditions on 21 December 2009, which will form an annex to the new Development Management Policy Statement, on which a consultation was launched on the same date.

East of England Waste Prevention Network

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much funding  (a) his Department and  (b) regional efficiency improvement partnerships have given to the East of England Waste Prevention Network since its inception.

Rosie Winterton: The Department has not provided funding directly to the East of England Waste Prevention Network, nor has it any plans to do so in the future.
	Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnerships (RIEPs) report to the Department on the basis of outcomes achieved and objectives delivered; they are not required to report in detail about to whom they have given money. However, we understand that RIEPs have not provided any funding to the East of England Waste Prevention Network.

Fire Prevention: Hotels

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what guidance  (a) his Department and  (b) the chief fire officer has provided to fire authorities on consistency in the application of fire safety assessments to hotels and bed and breakfast accommodation.

Shahid Malik: We have not provided guidance to fire and rescue authorities on consistency of enforcement in any premises covered by the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.
	It is for individual FRAs to determine their own audit and enforcement priorities under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (FSO), based on their assessment of risk within their communities.
	The National Framework 2008-11 makes it clear that we expect fire and rescue authorities to be mindful of the need to take an open and proportionate approach to their audit and enforcement functions in accordance with the principles of good enforcement set out in the Enforcement Concordat and the Regulators' Compliance Code , to which FRAs are required to have regard.
	The Department worked in partnership with representatives of small accommodation providers and the Chief Fire Officers Association to develop information for small accommodation providers on the compliance requirements of the FSO. "Do you have paying guests?" was published in November 2008 and provides practical information for the owners of these type of businesses and the fire and rescue services on what is likely to represent proportionate fire safety measures in these types of premises.

Fire Services

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much has been spent on  (a) empty property business rates,  (b) utilities,  (c) rent and other accommodation costs and  (d) security on each regional fire control room; and for how many months each has been empty.

Shahid Malik: I refer my hon. Friend to the answers I gave on 14 December 2009,  Official Report, column 915W.
	
		
			  Utilities (up to end January) 
			   £ 
			 North East 278,939 
			 East Midlands 278,446 
			 South West 161,170 
			 West Midlands 254,603 
			 South East 192,867 
			 North West 152,083 
			 Yorks and Humber 230,881 
			 East of England 158,282 
		
	
	
		
			  Rent and accommodation costs (up to end January) 
			   £ million 
			 North East 3.44 
			 East Midlands 3.78 
			 South West 3.60 
			 West Midlands 2.86 
			 South East 2.68 
			 North West 2.28 
			 Yorks and Humber 1.67 
			 East of England 1.66 
		
	
	The cost of the 24/7 security provision for the RCCs is included as part of the fixed fees of the facilities management contract, as above. The contract provides a holistic facilities management service, including security, maintenance, soft-landscaping, cleaning and support services such as courier bookings, and the staff to carry out these functions. It is not possible to provide a further breakdown of just the security costs.
	None of the buildings are empty. All the RCCs have staff based there full-time and they frequently host regional, project and FRS meetings. The RCCs are also being used for developing and testing systems and providing familiarisation and training activities.

Fire Services

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether retained firefighters are eligible to apply for positions above that of station officer.

Shahid Malik: National guidance does not preclude retained firefighters from applying for positions above that of station officer.

Fire Services

John McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many people were rescued uninjured from fires by the fire service in each of the last three years.

Shahid Malik: The latest three years for which data are available are 2006 to 2008. These are from the superseded fire data report forms which were in place until March 2009. Under this system, the numbers of people rescued but uninjured were recorded, but for reasons of economy, entry sampling was used such that full details of incidents for only one in five of those incidents that did not involve injuries were input to central databases.
	Examination of the estimates from this data base have shown that fluctuations in the estimates at fire and rescue service level, which occur as a result due the entry sampling, mean that only the following approximate national figure can be derived: the number of people rescued uninjured from fires by the fire and rescue service in each year between 2006 and 2008 is in the region of 1,500 to 2,000.
	Details of incidents under the new incident recording system are entered electronically at source, thus CLG's databases of incidents from April 2009 will no longer be subject to entry sampling or the resulting limitations in estimates. Data for 2009-10 is scheduled for release in August.

Fires

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many and what percentage of fire service call-outs were to fires which had been started deliberately in each local authority area in the last 12 months.

Shahid Malik: The latest statistics on the numbers and percentages of incidents attended by each Fire and Rescue Service which were fires that had been started deliberately are shown for each Fire Authority in the table.
	
		
			  Incidents attended by Fire and Rescue Services in England, 2008-09( 1) 
			   All deliberate fires  All fire incidents  Deliberate fires  ( as percentage of all fire incidents )  All incidents( 2)  Deliberate fires  ( as percentage of all incidents( 2) ) 
			 Avon 2,847 4,629 62 13,195 22 
			 Bedfordshire 1,438 2,518 57 6,673 22 
			 Berkshire 1,228 2,780 44 10,420 12 
			 Buckinghamshire 1,422 2,791 51 7,812 18 
			 Cambridgeshire 1,736 3,232 54 9,070 19 
			 Cheshire 3,071 5,216 59 11,451 27 
			 Cleveland 4,593 5,172 89 11,025 42 
			 Cornwall 574 1,864 31 5,196 11 
			 Cumbria 1,540 2,851 54 6,623 23 
			 Derbyshire 2,193 3,924 56 11,577 19 
			 Devon and Somerset 2,974 6,467 46 20,735 14 
			 Dorset 885 2,552 35 8,249 11 
			 Durham 1,654 4,424 37 8,393 20 
			 East Sussex 1,446 3,089 47 12,075 12 
			 Essex 2,496 5,677 44 19,378 13 
			 Gloucestershire 817 2,037 40 6,840 12 
			 Greater London 9,954 29,273 34 134,153 7 
			 Greater Manchester 14,275 19,040 75 40,871 35 
			 Hampshire 3,192 6,201 51 19,977 16 
			 Hereford and Worcester 1,140 2,631 43 8,184 14 
			 Hertfordshire 1,666 3,303 50 10,562 16 
			 Humberside 3,450 5,850 59 12,842 27 
			 Isle of Wight 173 432 40 1,449 12 
			 Isles of Scilly 0 9 0 20 0 
			 Kent 3,652 6,384 57 19,908 18 
			 Lancashire 6,065 8,787 69 21,157 29 
			 Leicestershire 2,156 3,787 57 9,946 22 
			 Lincolnshire 1,109 2,819 39 10,618 10 
			 Merseyside 9,818 12,558 78 24,049 41 
			 Norfolk 1,642 3,071 53 10,070 16 
			 North Yorkshire 1,074 2,521 43 8,323 13 
			 Northamptonshire 2,207 3,448 64 8,802 25 
			 Northumberland 897 1,722 52 4,144 22 
			 Nottinghamshire 4,021 6,310 64 15,372 26 
			 Oxfordshire 875 2,027 43 5,738 15 
			 Shropshire 986 2,158 46 5,289 19 
			 South Yorkshire 7,985 10,450 76 19,886 40 
			 Staffordshire 3,473 5,173 67 13,838 25 
			 Suffolk 842 2,304 37 6,974 12 
			 Surrey 1,159 3,120 37 12,580 9 
			 Tyne and Wear 7,076 8,877 80 20,175 35 
			 Warwickshire 1,458 2,507 58 6,208 23 
			 West Midlands 10,427 15,360 68 39,159 27 
			 West Sussex 1,033 2,674 39 11,609 9 
			 West Yorkshire 11,588 14,854 78 36,669 32 
			 Wiltshire 892 2,118 42 7,737 12 
			 (1) Provisional. (2) Comprises fires incidents attended, special service incidents attended and false alarms attended.  Source:  Fire and Rescue Incident Statistics Databases, CLG

Government Office for the East of England: Expenditure

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 5 February 2010,  Official Report, column 634W, on Government Offices for the Regions: procurement, how much the Government Office for the East of England paid to  (a) Butterfly Hotels Ltd.,  (b) Five Lakes Hotel,  (c) Hilton Hotel and  (d) Jolly Hotel; on what dates; for what purpose; and how many civil servants used the facilities in each case.

Rosie Winterton: GO-East spent the following amounts in delivery of regional Government business:
	 Butterfly Hotels Ltd . : £1,070.69
	30 April 2008
	Two meetings were held at this venue. The European Programmes Strategy Group held its regular meeting to oversee and scrutinise the region's use of European programme funding for 2007-13. The East of England Structural Fund Strategic Group reviewed delivery of the 2000-6 European Social Fund programme. 33 people attended the two meetings, including European Commission officials, national and regional Government officials and co-financing organisations from local authorities.
	Eight civil servants: three from GO-East, two from CLG, two from DWP, one from BERR (now BIS).
	 Five Lakes Hotel: £538.91
	13 March 2009
	Regional partners met to review the Coastal Initiative's priorities, and to visit Abbots Hall Farm-a site of particular importance for coastal management. The initiative is a national exemplar which brings together Government Departments, regional expertise and local authority representatives to address issues faced by the coast. The event brought together 16 regional and local authority partners.
	Three civil servants.
	 Hilton Hotel: £3733.13
	25-26 March 2009
	The meeting looked at how GO-East will deliver housing and transport targets in the region, while protecting the environment and delivering carbon reduction. It looked particularly at the challenges in Hertfordshire, and involved discussions with local partners from the county council to agree how best to work together.
	27 civil servants, four local authority colleagues.
	 Jolly Hotel: £560.87
	13 February 2009
	The meeting brought together Government Office Network officials from across the country to agree how we can most effectively deliver our role for the Department for Transport and for the communities we represent in each region. The event included looking at best practice examples of effective delivery in Cambridgeshire.
	10 civil servants.

Government Office for the North West: Expenditure

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 5 February 2010,  Official Report, column 634W, on Government Offices for the Regions: procurement, how much the Government Office for the North West paid to  (a) Aintree Racecourses,  (b) the Athenaeum,  (c) Inn on the Lake and  (d) Malmaison Hotel; on what dates; for what purpose; and how many civil servants used the facilities in each case.

Rosie Winterton: For details of the payments made to the suppliers listed I refer the hon. Member to the response I gave in PQ 319132.
	
		
			  Supplier  Event  Date  Civil servants 
			 Inn on the Lake Northwest High Focus areas 31 March 2008 1 
			 Malmaison 3rd Sector Inaugural meeting 13 June 2008 31 
			 Athenaeum Director and Team Leader Meeting 21 July 2008 38 
			 Athenaeum Director and Team Leader Meeting 13 November 2008 35 
			 Aintree Racecourses NW Crime stats lunch 17 July 2008 8

Government Office for the South East: Expenditure

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 5 February 2010,  Official Report, column 634W, on Government Offices for the Regions: procurement, how much the Government Office for the South East spent on  (a) the County Club,  (b) Devere Venues,  (c) Mandolay Hotel and  (d) Angel Posting House and Livery; and (i) on what dates and (ii) for what purpose each of those venues was used.

Rosie Winterton: The amounts spent on the above named venues in 2008-09 are set out in my response to PQ 319132. The purposes for using these venues are provided in the following list. GOSE premises were being refurbished between September 2008 and March 2009 which meant that a number of meetings that would normally have been held in-house were held in external locations.
	 County Club
	A number of Regional Resilience meetings with local resilience partners, and overseas emergency planners-9 October, 21 November, 5 December all 2008 and 7 January, 18 January, and 6 March all 2009.
	Government office senior management team meeting- 30 September 2008
	Housing and planning meeting-16 October 2008
	Government office directorate restructuring planning meeting- 11 November 2008
	Substance misuse partnership meeting-2 December 2008
	Sustainable food and farming strategy partnership meeting- 19 March 2009
	Government office directorate meeting-25 March 2009.
	 Devere Venues
	Accommodation costs for GOSE staff supporting the full Cabinet Meeting in Southampton-23 February 2009
	 Mandolay Hotel
	A partnership meeting to discuss Young Peoples Substance Misuse-25 September 2008
	A seminar for the South East Analysts network to look at and consider regional crime statistics-25 September 2008
	Two meetings of the regional forum for the Drug Intervention Programme-24 October 2008 and 21 January 2009
	A meeting to discuss the Civil Service South East agenda- 28 November
	A meeting of the South East Regional (drugs) Availability Group attended by representatives of the police and partners from local authorities-16 January 2009
	A business planning meeting to agree future priorities for GOSE's work on community cohesion and empowerment and on support to the third sector-12 February 2009
	A Regional Resilience seminar with local emergency planners- 29 April 2009
	GOSE non-executive director overnight accommodation, prior to GOSE Audit Committee and Board Meetings-15 April, 17 June, 24 September, 15 October all 2008
	 The Angel Posting House  and Livery
	European Social Fund Regional Committee-26 February 2009

Government Offices for the Regions: Procurement

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 5 February 2010,  Official Report, column 634W, on Government Offices for the Regions: procurement, how much each Government Office paid to each supplier listed in 2008-09; and what the address of each named supplier was.

Rosie Winterton: The information that has been requested has been deposited in the Library of the House.

Homelessness: Coventry

Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many people were recorded as sleeping rough in Coventry in 2008-09.

Ian Austin: holding answer 2 March 2010
	 Annual rough sleeping figures have been collected since 1998. The last street count in Coventry found four rough sleepers in 2009.
	We have reduced rough sleeping by 75 per cent. since 1998. Our national baseline was 1,850 in 1998 and the latest headline figure based on local authority rough sleeper counts was 464 for 2009.

Housing: Construction

Robert Syms: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many housing starts for housing of each type of tenure there were in the borough of Poole in the latest period for which figures are available.

Ian Austin: The number of house building starts in Poole unitary authority for each tenure for the latest available period is given in the following table.
	
		
			  Poole UA 
			   House building starts 
			  Financial year  Quarter  Local authority  Registered social landlords  Private enterprise  Total 
			 2009/10 3 0 0 46 46 
			  Source: New build starts from P2 quarterly returns submitted by local authorities and the National House-Building Council to CLG

Local Government

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what guidance  (a) his Department and  (b) the Standards Board has given to local authorities on visits by (i) hon. Members, (ii) parliamentary candidates and (iii) Cabinet Ministers to premises owned by local authorities (A) within and (B) outside election purdah periods.

Rosie Winterton: The Cabinet Office issues guidance to Departments on activities during general and local pre-election periods. Neither the Secretary of State nor the Standards Board issue separate guidance covering visits to premises owned by local authorities.

Local Government Services: Asylum

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what representations his Department has received from local authorities on funding to meet costs of supporting asylum seekers in the last 12 months.

Shahid Malik: During the course of the Department for Communities and Local Government consultation on the 2010-11 local government finance settlement two responses-form the London borough of Croydon and from the High Ethnicity Authorities Special Interest Group-raised the specific issue of pressures from asylum seekers without recourse to public funds who have exhausted the appeals process but have yet to be removed.

Local Government: Lobbying

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether guidance has been given to local authorities on retaining lobbyists and public affairs firms for the purposes of seeking to influence Government policy.

Rosie Winterton: Local authorities have traditionally sought to influence Government policy through their representative bodies, principally the Local Government Association, London councils and the National Association of Local Councils, and individually through making representations to Government. This Department has issued no guidance about the retention of lobbyists or public affairs firms to assist such activities.

Local Government: Reorganisation

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many applications for judicial review of a ministerial decision have been brought in relation to his Department's plans for local government restructuring; which bodies have made the applications; and what timetables have been set for each case.

Rosie Winterton: Regarding the Secretary of State's decisions of 10 February 2010 to implement unitary proposals in Exeter and Norwich, one joint judicial review has been brought by Devon and Norfolk county councils. The High Court has ordered that the case be listed for a hearing estimated at two days in the period 19 to 30 April 2010.
	Nine separate challenges were brought by local authorities against the Secretary of State in relation to decisions taken in 2007 on unitary proposals concerning Bedfordshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Durham, Exeter, Northumberland, North Yorkshire, Shropshire and Wiltshire. All these challenges have either been refused permission to apply for judicial review, withdrawn, or dismissed by the court.

Parking

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government in which regional spatial strategies policies on  (a) maximum parking standards and  (b) the setting of parking charges have been introduced.

Ian Austin: All Regional Spatial Strategies currently in effect contain policies relating to parking standards for all types of development, whether these standards are treated as maximums or not depend on the region. The RSS does not set out specific parking charges; this is the responsibility of local authorities.
	 North East-Policy 54
	http://www.gos.gov.uk/gone/ourregion/strategies/?a=42496
	The RSS does not define the maximum parking standards for developments, it is the LDF which sets these standards so as to reflect local circumstances.
	 North West-Policy RT2
	http://www.gos.gov.uk/gonw/Planning/RegionalPlanning/
	The maximum parking standards cover non-residential developments only.
	 Yorkshire and Humber-Policy T2
	http://www.yhassembly.gov.uk/News/2007/Assembly%20welcomes%20publication%20of%20RSS%20panel%20report/
	The maximum parking standards cover non-residential developments only.
	 East Midlands-Policy 47 and Policy 48
	http://www.goem.gov.uk
	The maximum parking standards cover non-residential developments only.
	 West Midlands-Policy T7
	http://www.gowm.gov.uk
	The RSS does not define the maximum parking standards for developments; it is the LDF which sets these standards so as to reflect local circumstances.
	 East of England- Policy T1 4
	http://www.eera.gov.uk/category.asp?cat=120
	The RSS defines the maximum parking standards for non-residential development as set out in PPG13 Transport; for these and for standards for residential development it is the LDF which interprets standards so as to reflect local circumstances.
	 South East-Policy T12
	http://www.southeast-ra.gov.uk/southeastplan/plan/view_plan.html
	The RSS states that local parking standards set out in LDFs for residential and non-residential development have to be line with PPG 13 Transport.
	 South West-Policy RTS3
	http://www.southwest-ra.gov.uk/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=836
	The maximum parking standards cover non-residential developments only.
	 London-Policies 3C.23 and C3.24
	http://www.london.gov.uk/thelondonplan/
	The London Plan does define the maximum parking standards for residential and non-residential development; the boroughs should interpret these standards so as to reflect local circumstances.

Regeneration

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government with reference to the National Audit Office's report on English Coalfields, HC 84, which  (a) local authority areas and  (b) Government Office regions the coalfields programme covers.

Ian Austin: The Homes and Communities Agency's National Coalfields Programme covers the following Government Office regions and local authorities:
	
		
			  Government office region  Local authority area 
			 East Midlands Ashfield 
			  Bassetlaw 
			  Bolsover 
			  Chesterfield 
			  Gedling 
			  Mansfield 
			  Melton 
			  Newark and Sherwood 
			  North East Derbyshire 
			  North West Leicestershire 
			  Rushcliffe 
			   
			 North East County Durham 
			  Gateshead 
			  North Tyneside 
			  Northumberland 
			  South Tyneside 
			  Sunderland 
			   
			 North West Copeland 
			  Knowsley 
			  Salford 
			  St. Helens 
			  Wigan 
			   
			 South East Canterbury 
			  Dover 
			   
			 South West Forest of Dean 
			   
			 West Midlands Cannock Chase 
			  Lichfield 
			  Newcastle-under-Lyme 
			  North Warwickshire 
			  Staffordshire Moorlands 
			  Stoke-on-Trent 
			   
			 Yorkshire and the Humber Barnsley 
			  Doncaster 
			  Leeds 
			  Rotherham 
			  Selby 
			  Sheffield 
			  Wakefield 
		
	
	A map showing the Government Office Regions and projects can be found at:
	http://www.englishpartnerships.co.uk/coalfields.htm

Regional Government

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many regional assemblies have been abolished; and which assemblies have rebranded themselves.

Rosie Winterton: No regional assemblies have been abolished. Pending the commencement of the LDEDC Act on 1 April, five regional assemblies have transferred some of their activities to newly established interim Leaders' Boards. These are (a) the Association of North East Councils; (b) Local Government Yorkshire and Humber (c) 4NW; (d) South East England Leaders' Board; and (e) South West Councils Strategic Leaders' Board.

Travelling People: Caravan Sites

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many unauthorised Traveller pitches there were in each local authority in England in  (a) 2000 and  (b) the latest period for which figures are available.

Shahid Malik: The Bi-annual count of Gypsy and Traveller caravans collects data on the number of caravans on unauthorised sites in England. It does not provide data on the number of pitches on unauthorised sites. Information on the number of caravans on unauthorised sites by local authority area in 2000 and 2009. I have arranged for a copy to be placed in the Library of the House.

Travelling People: Caravan Sites

Julie Morgan: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many vacant plots there are on local authority Gypsy sites.

Shahid Malik: The count of Gypsy and Traveller caravans carried out by local authorities on 16 July 2009 shows there were 250 vacant residential pitches and 76 vacant transit pitches on local authority sites in England.

Travelling People: Caravan Sites

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government with reference to his Department's Progress Report on Gypsy and Traveller Policy of July 2009, what the evidential basis is for the analysis for Planning Inspectorate decisions referred to on page 12 of the Progress Report; if he will place in the Library a copy of the methodology and dataset for the analysis referred to on page 12 of that report; and if he will update that analysis using the latest data.

Shahid Malik: The evidential basis for the analysis of Planning Inspectorate decisions referred to on page 12 of the Progress Report on Gypsy and Traveller Policy of July 2009 is a review of all 81 appeal decisions made under section 78 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 between 1 April 2008 and 31 March 2009. The Annual Report to Parliament refers to 178 appeals; this is a typographical error. This does not impact on the figure of 27 per cent. of appeals relating to Gypsy and Traveller developments receiving permission. I have arranged for a copy of the dataset to be placed in the House Library.
	It is our intention to provide an update to this in our 2010 report to Parliament.

Waste Improvement Network: Finance

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much funding  (a) his Department and  (b) the Regional Efficiency Improvement Partnership have given to the Waste Improvement Network in each year since its inception; and what the forecast level of funding by each is for (i) 2009-10, (ii) 2010-11 and (iii) 2011-12.

Rosie Winterton: The Department has not provided funding directly to the Waste Improvement Network (WIN), nor has it any plans to do so in the future.
	Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnerships (RIEPs) report to the Department on the basis of outcomes achieved and objectives delivered; they are not required to report in detail about to whom they have given money. However, we are aware that WIN was established by the predecessor to the South East RIEP in 2006-07 with funding of £89,700, and that forecast investment by them is as follows:
	2009-10: £15,000
	2010-11: £15,000.

Written Questions: Government Responses

Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government when he plans to answer question 316350, on offices of the Homes and Communities Agency, the Homes and Communities Agency Academy and the Tenant Services Authority, tabled on 3 February 2010.

Barbara Follett: The hon. Member's question was answered on 10 February although unfortunately it was not printed in the  Official Report. This has now been done on 2 March 2010,  Official Report, columns 1140-41W.

Rates and Rating: Historic Buildings

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many stately homes in England were on the Valuation Office Agency's Rating List in  (a) 1997 and  (b) 2010.

Ian Pearson: I have been asked to reply.
	For the number of properties on the list in 1997, I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to the hon. Member for Meriden (Mrs. Spelman) on 5 January 2010,  Official Report, column 232W.
	For the number of property types on the list in 2010, I refer the hon. Member to the statistical release titled "Non-domestic rateable values: 2010 Local Ratings Lists - England and Wales" published on 18 December 2009. A copy of this statistical release is available at the following link:
	http://www.voa.gov.uk/publications/statistical_releases/VOA_Statistics_Release_Final.pdf

ELECTORAL COMMISSION COMMITTEE

Illegal Immigrants

Robert Syms: To ask the hon. Member for South-West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission how many staff the Electoral Commission has appointed who were later discovered to be illegal immigrants since 2005.

Gary Streeter: The Electoral Commission informs me that there have been no staff appointed who were later discovered to be illegal immigrants since 2005.

Trade Unions

Robert Syms: To ask the hon. Member for South-West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission whether any staff of the Electoral Commission are seconded to trade unions; how many days staff of the Electoral Commission spent on trade union activity in the latest year for which figures are available; and what recent estimate has been made of the annual cost to the public purse of such activity.

Gary Streeter: The Electoral Commission informs me that there are no Electoral Commission staff seconded to trade unions. The Electoral Commission has internal staff representatives of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) trade union. During 2009 these representatives requested 11 hours of paid time to attend meetings and seven paid days to attend PCS training courses relating to staff representation. The estimated cost of paid time to undertake these activities was £1,400. In addition, internal staff representatives may provide ad hoc confidential advice to their members during working time, which is not recorded.

JUSTICE

Youth Custody: Appeals

David Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what proportion of custodial sentences given to juveniles was appealed against in each of the last five years; and what proportion of those appeals was upheld.

Claire Ward: The information requested is not available. Data collected within the central IT systems does not currently hold sufficient detail to allow identification of the type of sentence which is the subject of each appeal against a sentence heard in the Crown court or Court of Appeal.
	Annual statistics on all appeals dealt with in the Crown court against sentences given in the magistrates court are published by the Ministry of Justice in table 6.10 of the annual command paper "Judicial and Court Statistics". Annual statistics on all appeals in the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) against sentences in the Crown court are also published in Table 1.6 of this report. The most recent edition, presenting statistics for 2004 to 2008, was published in September 2009.
	Copies of "Judicial and Court Statistics" are available in the Library of the House and from the Ministry of Justice website at:
	http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/iudicialandcourtstatistics.htm

Closed Circuit Television: Local Government

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 1 February 2010,  Official Report, column 80W, on closed circuit television (CCTV): local government, if he will place in the Library a copy of the guidance issued by the Information Commissioner on the use of CCTV cameras with microphones; and what responsibilities the  (a) Information Commissioner and  (b) interim CCTV Regulator has in respect of the use of CCTV by local authorities.

Michael Wills: Copies of the Information Commissioner's CCTV code of practice, which covers CCTV systems with microphones, have been placed in the House of Commons and House of Lords Libraries.
	The Information Commissioner has a responsibility to ensure that any CCTV systems that are used to process personal data comply with the principles of the Data Protection Act 1998.
	The Interim CCTV regulator is currently responsible for the development of policy on matters surrounding the use of CCTV in public places. His forward work programme will focus on scoping the need for and requirements of a possible regulatory framework, which could include standards, data retention, training, and a complaints process. He will work with local authorities and other key stakeholders to achieve this.

Crimes of Violence

John Pugh: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people have been convicted of an offence of violence relating to the use of force against intruders in their homes in each of the last 10 years.

Claire Ward: The court proceedings database holds information on defendants proceeded against, found guilty and sentenced for criminal offences in England and Wales. The court proceedings database does not hold specific information on offences beyond descriptions provided by the statutes under which prosecutions are brought. Information available centrally on offences of assault do not identify if the victim was an intruder.

General Elections

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice whether any expenses incurred by returning officers in undertaking a general election count immediately following the closure of the polls are considered to be reasonable additional expenses for which they may be reimbursed by the Government.

Michael Wills: Returning Officers will be entitled to claim for charges necessarily incurred for the efficient and effective conduct of the election, up to the maximum recoverable amounts set out in an Order made by the Secretary of State ("the charges Order"). The maximum recoverable amounts in the charges order, which we are in the process of finalising, include an element for costs in conducting the verification and the count.
	The amounts we have calculated for that element are based on estimates of the time taken to count the number of ballot papers expected to be returned in that constituency and an hourly rate of pay which takes into account the possibility of working at unsocial hours.
	There is provision for the Secretary of State to authorise more than the maximum recoverable amount in a particular case provided that it was reasonable for the Returning Officer to incur the charges and the level of the charges in question is reasonable. Accordingly, any claim made by a returning officer for an additional payment above the maximum recoverable amount in connection with undertaking a count immediately after the poll has closed will need to be determined on a case-by-case basis.

Isle of Man: Health Services

Andrew MacKinlay: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what assessment he has made of the effect on the Sewel Convention of the decision to end on behalf of the whole of the UK the reciprocal health agreement with the Isle of Man with effect from 1 April 2010.

Michael Wills: None. The Sewel Convention is not relevant to the UK's decision to end the reciprocal health care agreement with the Isle of Man, as it involves neither a devolved legislature nor any form of legislation.
	The Sewel Convention is relevant to the relationship between the UK Parliament and the Scottish Parliament. Similar conventions apply to the relationship between the UK Parliament and the National Assembly for Wales and the Northern Ireland Assembly. The convention provides that the UK Parliament would not normally legislate with regard to devolved matters except with the agreement of the devolved legislature.

Political Parties

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice which provisions of the  (a) Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000,  (b) Electoral Administration Act 2006 and  (c) Political Parties and Elections Act 2009 have not yet commenced; and for what reasons in each case.  [Official Report, 10 March 2010, Vol. 507, c. 5MC.]

Michael Wills: I have provided a table which gives detail of the provisions that have not yet commenced, and the reasons for that, for the  (a) Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000,  (b) Electoral Administration Act 2006 and  (c) Political Parties and Elections Act 2009.
	
		
			  Section  Description  Reason why not yet in force 
			  Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000   
			 6(l)(c) Review of electoral and political matters (redistribution of Parliamentary seats) The Government accepted the recommendation of the Committee on Standards in Public Life's Eleventh Report, 'Review of the Electoral Commission', that the Electoral Commission should no longer have any involvement in electoral boundary matters and the provisions in PPERA to allow the transfer of boundary setting functions to the Commission should be repealed. Subsequently, the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 repealed these provisions and removes from the Electoral Commission functions relating to boundary and electoral changes 
			 14 and Schedule 3 Boundary Committees, Transfer of Functions of Boundary Commissions  
			 17 Transfer of property etc of Boundary Commissions  
			
			 Schedule 21, paragraph 6(3),6(4),6(7)(l)(a),7 Minor and consequential amendments Will be commenced at an appropriate time taking account of status of accounts from previous elections and allowing time for other changes contained in the EAA 2006 to bed in 
			
			  Electoral Administration Act 2006   
			 1(2) and (5),2(2),(4)(9)-(12),5(10),7 CORE scheme The CORE project has been paused to allow policy on individual electoral registration to develop first (individual registration may change the requirements for CORE and the context in which it is developed) 
			
			 31(4) (as it relates to rule37(l)(d) schedule 1 to the Representation of the People Act 1983) Replacement of counterfoils (procedure on close of poll) Section 31 is commenced, except to the extent that it relates to sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph (1) of rule 37 of the parliamentary election rules, which remains under consideration 
			
			 42-44 (as they relate to local government elections and authority elections as defined in section 203 of the Representation of the People Act 1983) Control of documents after parliamentary election; access to election documents Section 41 was commenced 1 January 2007. Policy changes in relation to election documents in Scotland, and secondary legislation, mean the commencement of sections 42 to 44 is, for the time being, unnecessary 
			
			 59 Reporting donations to holders of certain elective offices Commenced 1 July 2009 (so far as relates to a Member of the House of Commons). Otherwise under consideration 
			
			 61(1)(2-4)(5)(6) Regulation of loans etc. Commenced 11 September 2006 (England, Wales, Scotland); 1 January 2007 (England, Wales, Scotland); 1 July 2008 (Northern Ireland) except so far as applies to minor parties within meaning of PPERA 2000 s160. The position of minor parties (i.e. those which do not seek to field candidates in parliamentary or local authority elections) remains under review 
			
			 Schedule 1, Part 5, (75(1) amended rule 37 of the parliamentary rules set out in Schedule 1 to the Representation of the People Act 1983) Amendments (Signing in Polling stations) Remains under consideration in particular in the context of wider reforms to electoral registration 
			
			  Political Parties and Elections Act 2009   
			 1(2),2,3(1),(3),(4),8, Schedules 1 and 2 Compliance with controls imposed by the 2000 Act etc; Investigatory powers of Commission; Civil Sanctions; Education about systems of government and EU institutions The Electoral Commission's new powers will be commenced with effect from 1 July 2010. A statutory instrument supporting the civil sanctioning powers must be approved before section 3 and schedule 2 can be commenced 
			
			 6 Number of Electoral Commissioners The Speaker's Committee is considering proposed nominated Commissioners from party leaders. The provision will be commenced once the appointment process is complete 
			
			 9-11 and Schedules 3 and 4 Declaration as to source of donation; Non-resident donors etc; Non-resident lenders etc. As set out in the written ministerial statement of 24 November 2009,  Official Report, columns 68-70'WS: "Officials have begun preliminary work on the prerequisites to implementation of these provisions. However, as stated during consideration of Lords Amendments to the Bill, we are practically unable to commence Sections 10 and 11 before the summer of 2010 due to their complex nature. Section 9, which requires donors to provide declarations as to the true origins of all donations of over £7,500, will be commenced alongside Sections 10 and 11 to ensure consistency in approach, which will be welcomed by those who make political donations, as well as parties and other recipients who will have to ensure that they comply with the additional declaration requirement." 
			
			 25 Disposal of election documents in Scotland Planned for commencement with effect from 1 July 2010 
			
			 27 Returning officers for elections to the European Parliament The intention is to commence this provision in due course in time for implementation ahead of the next scheduled European Parliamentary elections in 2014 
			
			 28-29 CORE keeper The CORE project has been paused to allow policy on individual electoral registration to develop first (individual registration may change the requirements for CORE and the context in which it is developed) 
			
			 30,31,35,36 Electoral registration: Voluntary provision of identifying information; Regulations amending or supplementing section 30; Schemes for provision of data to registration officers; Schemes under section 35: proposals, consultation and evaluation The timetable for the introduction of individual electoral registration remains as set out during the parliamentary passage of the Political Parties and Elections Act 2009. During Commons Consideration of Lords Amendments on 13 July 2009,  Official Report, column 99, Michael Wills said: "Our approach to individual registration is to move in two phases: a voluntary phase and a compulsory phase...The voluntary phase will not commence before July 2010...and will not finish before 2014. That period will enable us to be fully confident that the system is ready before we move to the compulsory phase...It will enable us to prepare the public for the change, and to take steps to bolster registration rates in the meantime. That will be fundamental to protecting the system against the risk of a drop in the numbers registered." A project has been established to design and implement processes for the collection and storage of personal identifiers in the voluntary phase of individual electoral registration. 
			
			 32(1)-(5)-(11) Report by Electoral Commission on provision of identifying information This section can only be commenced once sections 30 and 31 have come into force 
			
			 33 and 34 Obligatory provision of identifying information (and provision supplementing 33) The commencement of this section is linked to the annual reports produced by the Electoral Commission under section 32. Upon a positive recommendation being made by the Electoral Commission in 2014 the commencement of sections 33 and 34 will need to be debated and approved by both Houses. 
			
			  Minor and consequential amendments The commencement of relevant minor and consequential amendments is dependant on commencement of other sections of the Act and will be brought forward as appropriate 
			  Repeals

Prison Places: Expenditure

Paul Holmes: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the average cost to the public purse was of a place in prison in each of the last three years.

Maria Eagle: The average direct prison cost per prison place in each of the last three financial years is as follows:
	
		
			  Financial year  £ 
			 2008-09 30,000 
			 2007-08 31,000 
			 2006-07 30,000 
		
	
	The direct prison cost is only the expenditure met locally by prisons. It does not include expenditure met at area, regional, or national level by Her Majesty's Prison Service (HMPS) or the National Offender Management Service (NOMS). The figure for 2008-09 includes private prisons and is net of income from the Department of Health and the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills.
	For the last two years (2008-09 and 2007-08) an overall average cost per prison place including prison related costs met by NOMS, in addition to the direct prison cost, has been calculated as:
	
		
			  Financial year  £ 
			 2008-09 45,000 
			 2007-08 43,000 
		
	
	The overall average cost for 2008-09 comprises the expenditure on public and private prisons (as recorded in the NOMS agency annual report and accounts), increased by an apportionment of relevant costs borne centrally and in the regions by NOMS. This involves some estimation. In addition, expenditure met centrally by the Youth Justice Board (YJB) is included. The figures do not include the cost of prisoners held in police or court cells under Operation Safeguard, nor expenditure met by other Government Departments (e.g. Health and Education). The prisoner escort service costs are included. Expenditure recharged to the YJB in respect of young people is included.
	The overall cost for 2007-08 was calculated on a broadly similar basis. Cost per prison place is expressed in terms of the certified normal accommodation number of places; this gives a higher unit cost than the cost per prisoner. Figures to nearest £1,000.

Prison Places: Finance

David Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice whether the cost of  (a) prisoner health care,  (b) prisoner education services,  (c) drug addiction services and  (d) dog handling are taken into account in his Department's estimates of the cost of a prison place in England and Wales.

Maria Eagle: For 2008-09 the overall cost of a prison place was £45,000 (to nearest £1,000). This includes expenditure met by the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) and the Youth Justice Board (YJB). It does not include expenditure met by other Government Departments (e.g. for health and education).
	In general health care costs are not included. Where prisons have been contracted out to the private sector the cost to NOMS includes health care and this is included in the cost per place above. In general prisoner education services are not included. Where prisons have been contracted out to the private sector the cost to NOMS includes education and this is included in the cost per place above. In general clinical drug addiction services are not included. Services which are the responsibility of NOMS (e.g. drug testing, accredited drug treatment programmes and Counselling, Assessment, Referral advice and Throughcare services) are included. Dog handling costs are included.
	Before 2008-09 Her Majesty's Prison Service Annual report and Accounts included the direct prison cost per place. This included only the expenditure met and managed locally at each prison and excluded expenditure met at area, region or national level. The reported figures included expenditure on health care and education which was recharged to the other Government Departments. It did not include that expenditure met directly by other Government Departments.
	The overall average cost for 2008-09 comprises the expenditure on public and private prisons (as recorded in the NOMS Agency Annual Report and Accounts), increased by an apportionment of relevant costs borne centrally and in the regions by NOMS. This involves some estimation. In addition, expenditure met centrally by the YJB is included. The figures do not include the cost of prisoners held in police or court cells under Operation Safeguard, nor expenditure met by other Government Departments (e.g. Health and Education). The prisoner escort service costs are included. Expenditure recharged to the YJB in respect of young people is included.
	Cost per prison place is expressed in terms of the Certified Normal Accommodation number of places; this gives a higher unit cost than the cost per prisoner.

Prison Service: Racial discrimination

Paul Holmes: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prison officers have been dismissed on grounds of racist behaviour in each of the last three years.

Maria Eagle: Staff working in the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) are expected to meet high standards of professional and personal conduct. Behaviour constituting discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying-including instances which involve a racial element-will not be tolerated and, depending on the individual circumstances of the case, would fall under the category of gross misconduct and would invariably lead to dismissal.
	Details of disciplinary outcomes are recorded centrally according to the type of misconduct rather than the actual offence committed by the member of staff. According to central records, five prison officers have been dismissed from public sector Prison Service establishments on grounds of racist behaviour since 1 January 2007. A breakdown of this information is provided in the following table.
	
		
			  Calendar year  Dismissals( 1) 
			 2007 4 
			 2008 0 
			 2009 1 
			 Total 5 
			 (1) Data on disciplinary dismissals are derived from the HR Discipline Database and the Shared Service Personnel Management Database. As with any large-scale administrative systems these are liable to a certain level of inaccuracy. Cases that are ongoing or subject to internal appeal have not been included. 
		
	
	There may be additional cases on the central databases which have not been recorded as racist in nature. In order to confirm the accuracy of this data, NOMS would need to contact all public sector Prison Service establishments, ask them to check their local records for the period required and ask them to submit this information to Headquarters so that the central records can be updated. This would incur disproportionate cost.
	NOMS believes that the key to long-term success in tackling unacceptable behaviour is to embed a sustainable diversity infrastructure across the service. A major initiative in this area has been the development of Challenge It Change It, a new training course and diversity toolkit. This is being introduced across the public sector prison service and NOMS HQ and is receiving very positive feedback.

Prisoners: Education and Drugs

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 23 February 2010,  Official Report, column 508W, on prisoners: education and drugs, what proportion of offenders in the  (a) CARAT programme and  (b) Young People's Substance Misuse Service programme successfully completed the course of drug intervention in each year since 2005-06.

Maria Eagle: The Counselling, Assessment, Referral, Advice and Throughcare service (CARATs) is the key non-clinical gateway drug treatment service in prisons for prisoners aged over 18. The Young People's Substance Misuse Service (YPSMS) provides a similar service for all young people (aged 15-18) in custody. Neither CARATs nor YPSMS is an intervention in its own right. Both provide a gateway to support, information, structured interventions and resettlement planning for prisoners with substance misuse problems. As a consequence, there is not necessarily a point where a prisoner could be considered to have successfully or unsuccessfully completed their engagement with either service.
	The following table shows the number of initial assessments carried out by CARATs and YPSMS in each of the full financial years since 2005-09. This gives an indication of the number of prisoners and young people engaged with drug treatment services in custody, although the level of engagement will vary according to individuals' needs.
	
		
			   Interventions delivered( 1) 
			  Intervention type  2004-05  2005-06  2006-07  2007-08  2008-09 
			 Counselling, Assessment, Referral, Advice and Throughcare service (CARATs) substance misuse triage assessments 59,000 66,000 65,700 65,800 66,600 
			 Young People's Substance Misuse Services (YPSMS) initial assessments - 8,500 8,300 7,400 7,000 
			 (1) Rounded to nearest 100

Prisons: Sanitation

David Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what his most recent estimate is of the number of prison cells without in-cell sanitation; and what plans his Department has to install in-cell sanitation in those cells.

Maria Eagle: There are about 2,000 cells on normal location across the prison estate that do not have integral sanitation but which have electronic unlocking facilities, which permits a prisoner to leave the cell to access sanitation and washing facilities on a call system. This system was approved as a method of ending 'slopping out', as set out in the Judge Tumin report of 1989. There are also some further cells on the prison estate without integral sanitation but which permit prisoners to have open access to central sanitation facilities via their privacy locks This was also acceptable to Judge Tumin as a method of ending of ending "slopping out".
	Cells with the current electronic unlocking facilities are too small for the installation of integral sanitation.

Probation Boards: Wales

Elfyn Llwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many members there were of each probation board in Wales on 31 December 2009.

Maria Eagle: The board members on each of the two probation areas and two probation trusts in Wales on 31 December 2009 were as follows:
	
		
			  Probation area/trust  Board members (including the chair and chief officer/chief executive) 
			 Dyfed Powys Probation Trust 7 
			 Gwent Probation Area 9 
			 North Wales Probation Area 12 
			 South Wales Probation Trust 10

Probation Officers: Wales

Elfyn Llwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many probation officers in each pay band at each grade were employed in each probation area in Wales on 31 December 2009.

Maria Eagle: There is only one pay band and grade for probation officers (introduced via the National Job Evaluation Scheme), which is Band 4. The number employed on 31 December 2009 were as follows:
	
		
			  Area/trust  Probation officers 
			 Dyfed Powys Probation Trust (1)38.10 
			 Gwent Probation Area (1)73.04 
			 South Wales Probation Trust (1)120.62 
			 North Wales Probation Area (1)164.20 
			 (1) Whole-time equivalent.

Probation: Per Capita Costs

David Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what his most recent estimate is of average annual cost to the public purse per offender of  (a) probation supervision,  (b) probation supervision with a drug programme attachment,  (c) probation supervision with an anger management programme attachment and  (d) probation supervision with a domestic violence programme attachment.

Maria Eagle: The funding for the supervision of offenders and the delivery of programmes in the community is part of the general grant given to probation areas or trusts. The costs will vary and depend on a number of factors including the risk presented by the individual, the level of supervision required, the programme the individual attends, and the arrangements for delivery in the particular area. It is not possible to accurately disaggregate the cost of this work.
	Full costs of probation services will be collected and published in order to benchmark the whole of the probation system by the end of 2011.

Probation: Reoffenders

Elfyn Llwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what his most recent estimate of the rate of re-offending after two years was following completion of a  (a) domestic violence,  (b) cognitive behaviour and  (c) drugs programme in each probation area in Wales.

Maria Eagle: The Ministry of Justice does not produce statistics on reoffending rates following the completion of programmes. National Statistics on the reoffending of adults released from custody or commencing a court order or suspended sentence order are published annually for England and Wales; they are not broken down for Wales alone. The Ministry of Justice also publishes local reoffending data for all offenders on the probation caseload, which are available at the Probation Area level. These data measure the reoffending of all offenders under probation supervision over three months. For more information about these statistics please see:
	http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/reoffendingofadults.htm
	and
	http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/local-adult-reoffending.htm
	There is international research evidence (but no specific Welsh research that we are aware of) showing that general offending behaviour programmes, anger management/violence reduction programmes and some drugs interventions are effective in reducing reoffending, although the evidence regarding domestic violence programmes is limited and remains tentative.

Probation: Reoffenders

Elfyn Llwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what his most recent estimate is of the rate of re-offending after two years following completion of a  (a) a probation or supervision order,  (b) a probation or supervision order with conditions and  (c) unpaid work in each probation area in Wales.

Maria Eagle: The requested data are not available. National reoffending data are based on offences committed within one year of offenders' release from custody or commencement of a court order under probation supervision, and cover England and Wales as a whole.
	In addition to the national statistics on reoffending, the Ministry of Justice publishes local reoffending data for all offenders on the probation caseload. These data are available at the probation area level. These data measure the reoffending of all offenders under probation supervision over a period of three months. The results are produced by aggregating four quarters of data. Therefore the number of offenders quoted in the following table is approximately four times the number of offenders on the caseload at any one time.
	The most recent reoffending rates for offenders on court orders under probation supervision for probation areas in Wales are shown in Table 1.
	
		
			  Table 1: Local reoffending rates for probation areas in Wales, 1 October2008 to 30 September 2009 
			  Probation area  Number of offenders  Proportion of offenders that reoffended within three months 
			 Dyfed-Powys 4,106 11.15 
			 Gwent 7,091 10.68 
			 North Wales 7,730 10.71 
			 South Wales 17,140 11.00 
		
	
	A breakdown by requirement type is not available.
	Further information on the reoffending of adult offenders on the probation caseload is available at:
	http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/local-adult-reoffending.htm
	Further information on the National Statistics on adult reoffending is available at:
	http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/reoffendingofadults.htm

Probation: Wales

Elfyn Llwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people completed and passed a probation programme in each probation area in Wales in each year since 2005.

Maria Eagle: The Accredited Programme Completions for each full year from 2005 are as follows:
	
		
			   2005-06  2006-07  2007-08  2008-09 
			 North Wales Probation Area 219 270 275 269 
			 South Wales Probation Trust 468 552 410 494 
			 Gwent Probation Area 198 208 213 213 
			 Dyfed Powys Probation Trust 138 157 151 153 
			 Total 1,023 1,187 1,049 1,129

Probation: Wales

Elfyn Llwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many staff of each grade were employed by each probation area in Wales on 31 December  (a) 2009 and  (b) 1999.

Maria Eagle: Data on how many staff of each grade were employed by Wales Probation Areas/Trusts on 31 December 2009 is as follows:
	
		
			  Grade  North Wales( 1)  Gwent( 1)  South Wales( 1)  Dyfed-Powys( 1) 
			 Chief Executive 1 1 (2)1 1 
			 ACO Level 3.10 4 7.65 4 
			 Grade 6 (includes Area Managers) 4 2 8.80 0 
			 Grade 5 (includes Senior Probation Officer's) 28.60 18.5 75.32 21.40 
			 Grade 4 (includes Probation Officers) 79.20 85.04 152.44 45.10 
			 Grade 3 (includes Probation Service Officer's) 67.63 86.46 61.38 209.08 
			 Grade 2 (admin) 24.12 32.05 96.69 26.9 
			 Grade 1 (lower admin) 8.21 13.99 7.30 5.40 
			 (1) WTE = whole-time equivalent (2) Acting 
		
	
	Reliable data on 1999 staff in post is not available for all areas/trusts. This type of information is usually retained in accordance with the six-year retention limit specified by the Data Protection Act 1998.

Probation: Wales

Elfyn Llwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice for what reasons he decided to establish an all-Wales probation trust to replace the four probation service areas in Wales.

Maria Eagle: The application to form an all-Wales trust met the criteria required for Trust status in terms of performance and it is considered that this would be the best means of delivering locally tailored and cost effective services for all communities in Wales.
	In common with all probation trusts, the Wales trust will be formed of local delivery units who are empowered to work with partners to understand and meet local needs, either through direct provision or commissioning. These units will provide a visible local presence for probation in all communities and ensure that the diverse needs in different parts of Wales are met. Compared to the retention of four separate probation areas in Wales, the single trust will save £1.5 million. This additional saving equates to 46 posts in corporate support and governance arrangements. In reducing management overheads, the all-Wales trust will focus resources on the frontline, improving public protection. These savings will allow 34 full-time equivalent probation officers to be employed across Wales who would otherwise not be funded.

Young Offender Institution: Costs

Paul Holmes: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the average cost of providing a place in a young offender institution was in each of the last three years.

Maria Eagle: The average direct prison cost per place in a young offender institution for each of the last three financial years is as follows:
	
		
			  Financial year  £ 
			 2008-09 34,000 
			 2007-08 34,000 
			 2006-07 33,000 
		
	
	The direct prison cost is only the expenditure met locally by prisons. It does not include expenditure met at area, regional, or national level by Her Majesty's Prison service (HMPS) or the National Offender Management Service (NOMS). The figure for 2008-09 includes private prisons and is net of income from the Department of Health and the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills.
	For the last two years (2008-09 and 2007-08) an overall average cost per place in a young offender institution including prison related costs met by NOMS, in addition to the direct prison cost, has been calculated as follows:
	
		
			  Financial year  £ 
			 2008-09 50,000 
			 2007-08 49,000 
		
	
	The overall average cost for 2008-09 comprises the expenditure on public and private prisons (as recorded in the NOMS agency annual report and accounts), increased by an apportionment of relevant costs borne centrally and in the regions by NOMS. This involves some estimation. In addition, expenditure met centrally by the Youth Justice Board (YJB) in respect of prisoners under the age of 18 is included. The figures do not include the cost of prisoners held in police or court cells under Operation Safeguard, nor expenditure met by other Government Departments (e.g. Health and Education). The prisoner escort service costs are included. Expenditure recharged to the YJB in respect of young people is included. Prison costs are classified to categories according to each prison's major use at the end of the year. If a YOI shares a site with an adult prison (over 21 years) the YOI cost will not be reflected in the figures above.
	The overall cost for 2007-08 was calculated on a broadly similar basis. Cost per prison place is expressed in terms of the certified normal accommodation number of places; this gives a higher unit cost than the cost per prisoner. Figures to nearest £1,000.

Young Offender Institutions: Social Workers

David Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 16 December 2009,  Official Report, column 1248W, on young offender institutions: social workers, how many  (a) social worker posts and  (b) vacant social worker posts there are in each young offender institution in England and Wales.

Maria Eagle: The number of social worker posts and vacant social worker posts there are in each young offender institution in England and Wales are shown in the table.
	Local authorities have a legal responsibility to provide social work services to children in need. We are actively exploring with the Association of Directors of Children's Services and the Youth Justice Board what more we can do to ensure local authorities fulfil their responsibilities in this regard.
	
		
			  Establishment  Number of social worker posts  Number of vacancies 
			  Young People's Estate   
			 Ashfield 2 2 
			 Brinsford(1) 0 0 
			 Castington 1 0 
			 Cookham Wood 1 0 
			 Feltham 2 2 
			 Hindley 4.5 2.5 
			 Huntercombe 2 0 
			 Parc 0 0 
			 Stoke Heath 1 0 
			 Warren Hill 2.5 1.5 
			 Werrington 1 0 
			 Wetherby 2 1 
			
			  Young Women's Units   
			 Downview 0.5 0.5 
			 Eastwood Park 1 1 
			 Foston Hall 0 0 
			 New Hall 1 0 
			 (1) Brinsford will be decommissioned in mid-February, so will no longer be part of the young people's estate.  Note: The data in this table have been provided by NOMS.

Youth Offending Teams

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 10 February 2010,  Official Report, column 1077W, on local government finance, what requirements local authorities have to submit data not contained in the national indicator set to  (a) his Department and  (b) its agencies other than the Youth Justice Board.

Claire Ward: Local authorities have no central requirements to submit data not contained in the national indicator set to the Ministry of Justice and its agencies.

Youth Offending Teams

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 10 February 2010,  Official Report, column 1077W, on local government finance, how many different items of data are collected from local authorities as part of the mandatory summary-level process by the Youth Justice Board.

Maria Eagle: The Youth Justice Board collects local authority data from youth offending teams. 12 different mandatory summary-level data items are collected. These data items are:
	Rate of reoffending (National Indicator 19/Welsh Youth Justice Indicator 2) broken down by disposal
	Use of custody (National Indicator 43/Welsh Youth Justice Indicator 3)
	Ethnic Disproportionality (National Indicator 44-only English YOTs submit these data) compared to overall 10-17 population
	Education, training and employment (National Indicator 45/Welsh Youth Justice Indicator 4)
	Accommodation (National Indicator 46/Welsh Youth Justice Indicator 5)
	First-time Entrants (National Indicator 111/Welsh Youth Justice Indicator 1), broken down by ethnicity and gender
	Access to substance misuse services (Welsh Youth Justice Indicator 6-only Welsh YOTs submit these data)
	Annual YOT budget and staffing data
	Prevention programme data, caseload, number of young people starting programme by age, gender and ethnicity, number who become first-time entrants, number receiving education, training and employment at start/end and 'Onset' progress
	Knife Possession Prevention Programmes data, young people convicted of knife-enabled offence who receive a knife 'intervention' by age, gender and ethnicity
	Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme data, number of young people starting, qualifying for and breaching programme, by age, gender ethnicity and disposal
	Priority and Prolific Offenders data, number, age, gender and ethnicity of young people in cohort and reoffending rate
	Integrated resettlement support data, 'Asset' progress and number of young people starting on and completing integrated resettlement support, broken down by offence, ethnicity, age and gender

TREASURY

Banknotes: Forgery

David Hamilton: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many counterfeit banknotes have been seized in the UK in each of the last two years for which figures are available; and how many purported to have been issued by  (a) the Bank of England,  (b) Scottish banks and  (c) banks in Northern Ireland.

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The Bank of England is responsible for collating statistics on counterfeits of its own banknotes and these are available at:
	http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/about/counterfeits.htm
	Scottish and Northern Ireland banknote issuers are responsible for collating statistical information on counterfeits of their own banknote issue. The Scottish banks publish their statistics on the Committee of Scottish Clearing banks website available at:
	http://www.scotbanks.org.uk/banknote_counterfeit.php
	The Northern Irish banknote issuers do not publish statistics on counterfeits of their banknote issue.

Council Tax: Valuation

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the average council tax band of a new build dwelling in England was in the latest period for which figures are available.

Ian Pearson: The band which has most frequently been applied to dwellings first brought into council tax valuation lists between 1 April 2008 and 31 March 2009 in England is Band B.

Financial Services: Advisory Services

Adrian Sanders: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps his Department is taking to provide financial advisory services through the Post Office network.

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The Government currently have no plans to provide financial advisory services specifically through the Post Office network.
	The Government however are committed to ensuring that people can access helpful, impartial information and guidance on money. This will help them make better-informed financial decisions, manage their money well and avoid getting into financial difficulty. As part of this, the Government will shortly launch the roll-out of a national Money Guidance service.
	The Government have also indicated that they want Post Office to play a bigger role in banking services. A public consultation on Post Office banking recently closed on 24 February and the Government are now considering the comments they received and will publish their response in due course.

Government: Assets

Mark Field: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what correspondence his Department has had with the Crown Estate on its proposed sale of the  (a) Cumberland Market,  (b) Millbank,  (c) Victoria Park and  (d) Lee Green housing estate; and if he will make a statement.

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The Treasury has been kept informed of the current consultation taking place. Recent correspondence included the materials sent to residents of the estates. No decision has yet been made.

Housing: Valuation

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 11 January 2010,  Official Report, column 766W, on housing: valuation, how many and what proportion of dwellings in England have an entry on the Valuation Office Agency database with  (a) dwellinghouse coding and  (b) one or more value significant codes assigned to them.

Ian Pearson: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 16 October 2009,  Official Report, column 140W.

Non-domestic Rates: Valuation

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer 
	(1)  how many pleasure piers were on the Valuation Office Agency's Rating List in England in  (a) 1997 and  (b) 2010;
	(2)  how many Traveller camp pitches in England were on the Valuation Office Agency's rating List in  (a) 1997 and  (b) 2010;
	(3)  how many public libraries in England were on the Valuation Office Agency's rating List in  (a) 1997 and  (b) 2010;
	(4)  how many premises of law courts in England were on the Valuation Office Agency's Rating List in  (a) 1997 and  (b) 2010;
	(5)  how many zoos in England were on the Valuation Office Agency's Rating List in  (a) 1997 and  (b) 2010;
	(6)  how many lap dancing venues in England were on the Valuation Office Agency's Rating List in  (a) 1997 and  (b) 2010;
	(7)  how many public telephone boxes in England were on the Valuation Office Agency's Rating List in  (a) 1997 and  (b) 2010;
	(8)  how many nightclubs and discotheques in England were on the Valuation Office Agency's Rating List in  (a) 1997 and  (b) 2010;
	(9)  how many supermarkets with a floor area of over 2,500 square metres in England were on the Valuation Office Agency's Rating List in  (a) 1997 and  (b) 2010;
	(10)  how many public conveniences in England were on the Valuation Office Agency's Rating List in  (a) 1997 and  (b) 2010;
	(11)  how many drive-in and drive-through restaurants in England were on the Valuation Office Agency's Rating List in  (a) 1997 and  (b) 2010;
	(12)  how many Post Offices in England were on the Valuation Office Agency's Rating List in  (a) 1997 and  (b) 2010;
	(13)  how many petrol filling stations in England were on the Valuation Office Agency's Rating List in  (a) 1997 and  (b) 2010;
	(14)  how many  (a) casinos and gambling clubs and  (b) bingo halls in England were on the Valuation Office Agency's Rating List in (i) 1997 and (ii) 2010.

Ian Pearson: For the number of properties on the list in 1997, I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to the hon. Member for Meriden (Mrs. Spelman) on 5 January 2010,  Official Report, column 232W.
	For the number of property types on the list in 2010, I refer the hon. Member to the statistical release titled "Non-domestic rateable values: 2010 Local Ratings Lists - England and Wales" published on 18 December 2009. A copy of this statistical release is available at the following link:
	http://www.voa.gov.uk/publications/statistical_releases/VOA_Statistics_Release_Final.pdf

Revenue and Customs: Peterhead

Alex Salmond: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what consultation HM Revenue and Customs has undertaken with staff based at Keith House, Peterhead, over the Workforce Change programme.

Stephen Timms: Staff at the HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) office at Keith House, Peterhead were invited to give their views on the proposal to vacate the office during an eight week period from 11 June to 6 August 2008.
	Following the announcement on 4 December 2008 that HMRC would withdraw from Keith House, managers have held one-to-one meetings with staff to discuss their options, taking account of individual personal circumstances. A regional implementation team was set up to explore redeployment options and find suitable opportunities within HMRC and in other Government Departments and Agencies. Seminars for all affected staff are being held, and further support is being planned for those staff who want to continue their civil service careers.

Taxation: Gaming Machines

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer for what reasons HM Revenue and Customs proposes to reclassify skills with prize machines as gaming machines; and what account that proposal takes of his Department's policy on retrospective taxation.

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The definition of a gaming machine for the purpose of amusement machine licence duty (AMLD) is provided by section 25 of the Betting and Gaming Duties Act 1981 which, in turn, refers to section 6 of the Gambling Act 2005.
	HM Treasury and HM Revenue and Customs, in consultation with the Gambling Commission and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, will undertake a review of Skill with prizes machines and the games played on them for the purposes of AMLD. The review was announced on 26 February and will report to Ministers in four months. The review will also consider the issue of tax arrears applicable to some machines.

Valuation Office Agency

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the Valuation Office Agency has requested access to data held on the  (a) Home Condition Register,  (b) Energy Performance Certificate Register and  (c) National Register of Social Housing.

Ian Pearson: The Valuation Office Agency has not requested access to data held on the Home Condition Report or Energy Performance Certificate Registers, but has requested and received data held on the National Register of Social Housing.

VAT: Alcoholic Drinks

Stewart Hosie: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the effect of value added tax arrangements on loss-leading marketing promotions of alcohol by retailers.

Stephen Timms: No such assessment has been made. VAT returns to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) by retailers and other businesses do not distinguish payments or recovery of VAT on alcohol products from those on other sales.

HOME DEPARTMENT

Alcoholic Drinks: Young People

Tobias Ellwood: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been fined for selling alcohol to under-age persons in each year since 1997; and what the average fine was in each such year.

Alan Campbell: Information on the number of fines issued by the courts and the average fine amount for "selling alcohol to persons under 18" for each year between 1997 and 2008 is provided in the following table. This does not include data on penalty notices for disorder, which can also be issued for underage sales.
	
		
			  Total fines given and average fine amount, se lling alcohol to underage, 1997 to  2008 
			1997  1998  1999  2000  2001  2002  2003  2004  2005  2006  2007  2008 
			  14203  Selling etc. intoxicating liquor to person under 18 on the premises 
			  Number of fines issued 111 129 95 46 42 80 353 519 662 438 37 21 
			  Average fine imposed (£) 227 212 194 206 208 249 253 238 246 293 276 376 
			   
			  14379  Sale of alcohol to person under 18 
			  Number of fines issued - - - - - - - 13 17 278 425 287 
			  Average fine imposed (£) - - - - - - - 206 251 324 375 378 
			   
			  14380  Allowing sale of alcohol to person under 18 
			  Number of fines issued - - - - - - - - - 10 6 14 
			  Average fine imposed (£) - - - - - - - - - 276 467 603 
			   
			  14352  Wholesaler selling intoxicating liquor to a person under 18 
			  Number of fines issued - 1 - - - - - 2 6 - - - 
			  Average fine imposed (£) - 50.00 - - - - - 160.00 233.33 - - - 
			   
			  14398  Persistently selling alcohol to children 
			  Number of fines issued - - - - - - - - - - - 8 
			  Average fine imposed (£) - - - - - - - - - - - 968.75 
			  Notes: 1. These figures have been drawn from administrative data systems. 2. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. 3. These data are presented on the principal offence basis. Where an offender has been sentenced for more than one offence the principal offence is the one for which the heaviest sentence was imposed. Where the same sentence has been imposed for two or more offences the principal offence is the one for which the statutory maximum is most severe.  Source: Ministry of Justice

Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986

Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department for what reason Section 24 of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 has yet to be repealed.

Meg Hillier: holding answer 1 March 2010
	We have no plans to review section 24 of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 before we know the outcome of European Union Directive 86/609/EEC on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes, which is currently being debated in the European Union.
	We have never given a commitment to repeal section 24, only to review it.

Arrest Warrants

Edward Davey: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many European Arrest Warrants have been  (a) sought and  (b) obtained by police forces and other organisations in England in respect of (i) each category of crime and (ii) each other member state; and if he will make a statement.

Meg Hillier: The information requested is as follows:
	 (a) We are unable to answer this part of the question. SOCA does not receive any information on the European Arrest Warrants (EAWs) which are applied for by UK Law Enforcement and only receives EAWs which have been issued.
	 (b) The data held on the number of EAWs issued cannot be broken down to reflect the figures for England only. All figures relate to the whole of the UK.
	The figures for the number of EAWs issued by UK prosecuting authorities and transmitted by SOCA are as follows:
	
		
			   EAWs issued  Persons extradited to the UK 
			 2004 96 19 
			 2005 131 63 
			 2006 126 76 
			 2007 198 99 
			 2008 218 96 
		
	
	It is not possible from current systems to provide data broken down into the number of EAWs issued by the UK in respect of each category of crime or of each other member state. This would require a manual examination of all files and incur disproportionate cost.

Beer Glasses

Don Touhig: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the effect on the number of injuries which would result from the national roll-out of the prototype shatter-proof pint glasses developed by his Department's Design and Technology Alliance; and if he will make it his policy to provide financial support to independent pub landlords to acquire stocks of such glasses.

Alan Campbell: There are around 87,000 violent incidents involving glassware each year. In the majority of cases where violent crime involving glassware is reported it is most commonly pint glasses which are broken and used as sharp weapons. The  British Medical Journal has highlighted that the injury caused by drinking glasses could be substantially reduced by the use of toughened glass in premises.
	We anticipate the cost of the new glasses will be similar to existing standard toughened glass. Cost will clearly be a consideration as we move forward with these prototypes. Both glass solutions should have a potentially longer lifespan than existing glass, therefore we do not have any plans to financially support trade in acquiring stocks of the glasses as it would be part of their natural expenditure.

Communications Capabilities Directorate

David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what expenditure his Department has incurred on its Communications Capabilities Directorate since it was established.

David Hanson: holding answer 24 February 2010
	The Communication Capabilities Directorate brings together work to ensure that, in a changing communications environment, communications data and interception of communications can continue to protect the public and save lives. This includes implementing the European Union data retention directive and looking at how communications data capabilities can be maintained in the future as technology continues to evolve through the Interception Modernisation Programme. The Directorate is also working with public authorities to improve training around the use of communications data to maximise efficiencies as suggested by feedback to the 2009 public consultation 'Protecting the Public in a Changing Communications Environment'. The Directorate has incurred expenditure of £14 million since it was established. This includes resources, facilities and capital expenditure.

Communications Capabilities Directorate

David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many contracts the Communications Capabilities Directorate has put out to tender in the last 12 months; and how many it plans to put out to tender in the next 12 months.

David Hanson: holding answer 24 February 2010
	Details of any past or future plans to tender cannot be disclosed on grounds of national security.

Crime

Christopher Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the percentage change was in  (a) total recorded crime,  (b) crimes involving violence against the person,  (c) robbery and  (d) burglary in each basic command unit area between 2002-03 and 2008-09.

Alan Johnson: holding answer 1 March 2010
	The information requested is given in the table. The basic command unit (BCU) structure in some forces has changed across this period, as reflected in the table.
	
		
			  Table: Percentage change of recorded crime by BCU ( basic command unit ) between 2002-03 and 2008-09( 1) 
			Percentage difference 
			  Police force  BCU name( 2)  Total recorded crime  Violence against person  Robbery  Burglary 
			 Avon and Somerset Bath and North East Somerset -26 84 -55 -43 
			 Avon and Somerset Bristol (after April 2004) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Avon and Somerset Central Bristol n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Avon and Somerset North Bristol n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Avon and Somerset North Somerset -15 22 -34 -35 
			 Avon and Somerset Somerset East -25 11 -69 -53 
			 Avon and Somerset Somerset West -19 4 -36 -36 
			 Avon and Somerset South Bristol n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Avon and Somerset South Gloucester -8 40 -37 -11 
			 Bedfordshire Bedford n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Bedfordshire Beds County (after April 2006) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Bedfordshire Dunstable n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Bedfordshire Luton -26 -3 -5 -9 
			 Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire Central n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire Northern n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire Southern n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Cambridgeshire Cambs Central (after April 2006) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Cambridgeshire Cambs Northern (after April 2006) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Cambridgeshire Cambs Southern (after April 2006) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Cheshire Chester and Ellesmere Port n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Cheshire Congleton and Vale Royal n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Cheshire Crewe n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Cheshire Eastern Cheshire (after April 2005) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Cheshire Halton n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Cheshire Macclesfield n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Cheshire Northern Cheshire (after April 2005) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Cheshire Warrington n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Cheshire Western Cheshire (after April 2005) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Cleveland Hartlepool -28 39 -66 -65 
			 Cleveland Langbaurgh (Redcar and Cleveland) -16 41 -60 -41 
			 Cleveland Middlesbrough -29 42 -77 -61 
			 Cleveland Stockton -25 41 -62 -61 
			 Cumbria Barrow and Kendal -12 23 -71 -44 
			 Cumbria Carlisle and Penrith -20 23 -67 -46 
			 Cumbria Workington and Whitehaven -20 13 -44 -53 
			 Derbyshire Alfreton (A Division) -23 18 -14 -51 
			 Derbyshire Buxton (B Division) -23 -9 22 -24 
			 Derbyshire Chesterfield (C Division) -23 9 -61 -47 
			 Derbyshire Derby (D Division) -36 -34 -19 -48 
			 Devon and Cornwall Cornwall and Isles of Scilly -27 -22 -34 -29 
			 Devon and Cornwall Devon n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Devon and Cornwall North and East Devon n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Devon and Cornwall Plymouth -21 -5 -32 -38 
			 Devon and Cornwall South and West Devon n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Dorset Bournemouth n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Dorset Bournemouth and Poole n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Dorset Dorset County n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Dorset Dorset Eastern n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Dorset Dorset Western n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Dorset Poole n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Durham Darlington n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Durham Derwentside n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Durham Durham n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Durham Easington n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Durham North Durham (after April 2004) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Durham Sedgefield n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Durham South Durham (after April 2004) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Durham Wear-Tees n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Dyfed-Powys Carmarthenshire -12 -21 -36 -5 
			 Dyfed-Powys Ceredigion -16 -25 -63 -16 
			 Dyfed-Powys Pembrokeshire 5 7 18 6 
			 Dyfed-Powys Powys 11 -2 43 36 
			 Essex Basildon n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Essex Braintree n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Essex Chelmsford n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Essex Colchester n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Essex Essex Central n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Essex Essex Eastern n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Essex Essex South Eastern n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Essex Essex South Western n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Essex Essex Western -9 16 -14 -9 
			 Essex Rayleigh n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Essex Southend n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Essex Stansted Airport -20 50 * -75 
			 Essex Tendring n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Essex Thurrock n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Gloucestershire Cheltenham and Tewkesbury -25 8 -47 -34 
			 Gloucestershire Cotswold and Stroud n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Gloucestershire Cotswold and Stroud (after April 2008) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Gloucestershire Forest and Gloucester n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Gloucestershire Forest and Gloucester (after April 2008) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Greater Manchester Bolton -31 -18 -45 -52 
			 Greater Manchester Bury -27 -3 -38 -49 
			 Greater Manchester Manchester Airport (after April 2005) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Greater Manchester Metropolitan (after April 2005) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Greater Manchester North Manchester -17 -9 -49 -29 
			 Greater Manchester Oldham -27 -17 -10 -51 
			 Greater Manchester Rochdale -21 -4 -33 -47 
			 Greater Manchester Salford -26 15 -43 -53 
			 Greater Manchester South Manchester n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Greater Manchester South Manchester (after April 2008) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Greater Manchester Stockport -30 -23 -12 -46 
			 Greater Manchester Tameside -22 -1 -10 -35 
			 Greater Manchester Trafford n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Greater Manchester Trafford (after April 2008) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Greater Manchester Wigan -25 5 -14 -52 
			 Gwent Blaenau Gwent n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Gwent Caerphilly n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Gwent Caerphilly and Blaenau Gwent n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Gwent Newport -12 -24 -40 -16 
			 Gwent Pontypool -17 -52 -16 -24 
			 Hampshire Andover n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Hampshire Basingstoke n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Hampshire Central Hampshire n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Hampshire Central Hants (after April 2006) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Hampshire Eastleigh n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Hampshire Fareham n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Hampshire Gosport n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Hampshire Havant n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Hampshire Isle of Wight 7 37 -37 -49 
			 Hampshire New Forest n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Hampshire North and East Hampshire (after April 2006) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Hampshire North East Hampshire n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Hampshire Portsmouth 5 28 15 24 
			 Hampshire Southampton 13 48 33 -14 
			 Hampshire Western Hampshire (after April 2006) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Hertfordshire Hertfordshire Central -16 34 -23 -27 
			 Hertfordshire Hertfordshire Eastern -5 46 -4 -11 
			 Hertfordshire Hertfordshire Western -15 22 -7 -25 
			 Humberside East Riding of Yorkshire -25 -5 -68 -48 
			 Humberside Kingston upon Hull -41 14 -69 -58 
			 Humberside North East Lincolnshire -26 14 -33 -38 
			 Humberside North Lincolnshire -24 8 -24 -48 
			 Kent Canterbury n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Kent East Kent n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Kent Maidstone n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Kent Medway n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Kent Medway (after April 2005) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Kent Mid Kent n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Kent North Kent n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Kent North Kent (after April 2006) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Kent South-East Kent n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Kent South Kent n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Kent Swale n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Kent Thanet n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Kent Weald n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Kent West Kent n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Kent West Kent (after April 2006) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Lancashire Lancashire Central -20 21 -36 -45 
			 Lancashire Lancashire Eastern -20 19 -19 -45 
			 Lancashire Lancashire Northern -8 23 -39 -43 
			 Lancashire Lancashire Southern -8 40 -26 -38 
			 Lancashire Lancashire Western 5 52 -49 -26 
			 Lancashire Pennine -6 27 -52 -13 
			 Leicestershire Central Leicestershire n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Leicestershire East Leicestershire n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Leicestershire Leics City (after April 2007) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Leicestershire North Leicestershire n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Leicestershire North Leics (after April 2007) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Leicestershire South Leicestershire n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Leicestershire West Leicestershire n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Lincolnshire East Lincolnshire -17 0 -44 -33 
			 Lincolnshire South Lincolnshire n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Lincolnshire South Lincs (after April 2006) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Lincolnshire West Lincolnshire n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Lincolnshire West Lincs (after April 2006) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 London, City of Bishopsgate -24 -3 -28 -13 
			 London, City of Snowhill -32 -19 38 -20 
			 Merseyside Knowsley -17 -55 -11 -18 
			 Merseyside North Liverpool -28 -13 -36 -37 
			 Merseyside Sefton -21 -9 -52 -43 
			 Merseyside South Liverpool -27 -13 -58 -50 
			 Merseyside St. Helens -30 -6 -45 -51 
			 Merseyside Wirral -38 -37 -57 -48 
			 Metropolitan Police Barking and Dagenham -2 17 10 2 
			 Metropolitan Police Barnet -23 -1 -16 -7 
			 Metropolitan Police Bexley -18 -3 11 -4 
			 Metropolitan Police Brent -19 3 -6 -10 
			 Metropolitan Police Bromley -13 15 13 1 
			 Metropolitan Police Camden -37 3 -43 -41 
			 Metropolitan Police City of Westminster -27 -15 6 -28 
			 Metropolitan Police Croydon -15 -10 -25 -2 
			 Metropolitan Police Ealing -18 7 -26 -15 
			 Metropolitan Police Enfield -18 -32 7 -7 
			 Metropolitan Police Greenwich -8 -2 55 20 
			 Metropolitan Police Hackney -24 -5 -55 -43 
			 Metropolitan Police Hammersmith and Fulham -24 12 -46 -26 
			 Metropolitan Police Haringey -30 -3 -47 -13 
			 Metropolitan Police Harrow -23 10 -11 -15 
			 Metropolitan Police Havering -16 -24 -29 5 
			 Metropolitan Police Heathrow -40 24 x -72 
			 Metropolitan Police Hillingdon -13 19 33 -12 
			 Metropolitan Police Hounslow -28 -28 -27 -23 
			 Metropolitan Police Islington -25 -10 -34 -32 
			 Metropolitan Police Kensington and Chelsea -31 -10 -25 -26 
			 Metropolitan Police Kingston upon Thames -21 -30 -10 15 
			 Metropolitan Police Lambeth -35 -17 -46 -39 
			 Metropolitan Police Lewisham 10 35 -15 -21 
			 Metropolitan Police Merton -15 8 -21 -2 
			 Metropolitan Police Newham -19 -13 -21 -10 
			 Metropolitan Police Redbridge -15 -10 -6 14 
			 Metropolitan Police Richmond upon Thames -29 -27 -21 -11 
			 Metropolitan Police Southwark -15 8 -14 -32 
			 Metropolitan Police Sutton -8 -16 25 17 
			 Metropolitan Police Tower Hamlets -33 -24 -40 -36 
			 Metropolitan Police Waltham Forest -19 3 -17 -13 
			 Metropolitan Police Wandsworth -31 -5 -35 -37 
			 Norfolk Norfolk Central n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Norfolk Norfolk County n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Norfolk Norfolk Eastern n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Norfolk Norfolk Western n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Northamptonshire Northampton n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Northamptonshire Northamptonshire Eastern n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Northamptonshire Northamptonshire Northern n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Northamptonshire Northamptonshire Western n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Northamptonshire Northants North (after April 2006) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Northamptonshire Northants West (after April 2006) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Northumbria Gateshead n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Northumbria Gateshead East n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Northumbria Gateshead West n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Northumbria Newcastle (after April 2005) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Northumbria Newcastle Central n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Northumbria Newcastle East n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Northumbria Newcastle North n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Northumbria Newcastle West n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Northumbria North Northumberland n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Northumbria North Tyneside (after April 2005) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Northumbria Northumberland (after April 2004) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Northumbria South-East Northumberland n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Northumbria South Tyneside -41 -27 -64 -52 
			 Northumbria South-West Northumberland n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Northumbria Sunderland n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Northumbria Sunderland City n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Northumbria Sunderland West n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Northumbria Tynemouth n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Northumbria Wallsend n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Northumbria Washington n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 North Wales North Wales Central n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 North Wales North Wales Eastern n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 North Wales North Wales Western -24 5 -57 -48 
			 North Wales N Wales Central (after April 2003) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 North Wales N Wales Eastern (after April 2003) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 North Yorkshire North Yorkshire Central -29 7 -25 -45 
			 North Yorkshire North Yorkshire Eastern -24 12 -34 -40 
			 North Yorkshire North Yorkshire Western -29 -27 -40 -42 
			 Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire Area A -19 22 -15 -36 
			 Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire Area B -12 23 2 -35 
			 Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire Area C -36 14 -24 -53 
			 Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire Area D -34 22 1 -52 
			 South Wales Bridgend -26 -3 18 -43 
			 South Wales Cardiff -14 8 10 -27 
			 South Wales Merthyr Rhondda Cynon Taff n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 South Wales Merthyr Tydfil n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 South Wales Neath and Port Talbot -24 -18 -14 -35 
			 South Wales Rhondda Cynon Taff n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 South Wales Swansea -26 4 -10 -21 
			 South Wales Vale of Glamorgan -24 5 -21 -43 
			 South Yorkshire Barnsley -21 35 -48 -61 
			 South Yorkshire Doncaster -13 43 -45 -46 
			 South Yorkshire Rotherham -12 44 -40 -51 
			 South Yorkshire Sheffield (after April 2008) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 South Yorkshire Sheffield Central n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 South Yorkshire Sheffield North n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 South Yorkshire Sheffield South n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Staffordshire Chase -18 5 -21 -30 
			 Staffordshire North Staffordshire -24 -6 -31 -39 
			 Staffordshire Stoke on Trent -23 0 3 -34 
			 Staffordshire Trent Valley -21 -11 -19 -37 
			 Suffolk Suffolk Eastern n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Suffolk Suffolk Eastern (after April 2008) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Suffolk Suffolk Southern n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Suffolk Suffolk Western n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Suffolk Suffolk Western (after April 2008) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Surrey East Surrey n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Surrey North Surrey n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Surrey North-West Surrey n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Surrey Surrey East (after April 2008) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Surrey Surrey North (after April 2008) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Surrey Surrey West (after April 2008) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Surrey West Surrey n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Sussex Brighton and Hove -16 12 -6 -36 
			 Sussex East Downs (before April 2003) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Sussex East Sussex n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Sussex Forest n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Sussex Gatwick -51 55 x -4 
			 Sussex Hastings and Rother n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Sussex Highdown n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Sussex North Downs n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Sussex Weald n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Sussex West Downs n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Sussex Western n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Thames Valley Aylesbury Vale n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Thames Valley Berkshire East (after April 2005) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Thames Valley Berkshire West (after April 2005) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Thames Valley Buckinghamshire (after April 2005) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Thames Valley Chiltern Vale n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Thames Valley Milton Keynes 8 46 42 -12 
			 Thames Valley Northern Oxfordshire n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Thames Valley Oxford n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Thames Valley Oxfordshire (after April 2005) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Thames Valley Reading and Wokingham n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Thames Valley Slough and District n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Thames Valley Southern Oxfordshire n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Thames Valley Thames Forest n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Thames Valley West Berkshire n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Warwickshire Warwickshire Northern n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Warwickshire Warwickshire Police BCU n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Warwickshire Warwickshire Southern n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Mercia Hereford n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Mercia Hereford (E Division) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Mercia Kidderminster n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Mercia North Worcestershire (D Division) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Mercia Redditch n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Mercia Shrewsbury n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Mercia Shropshire (F Division) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Mercia South Worcestershire (C Division) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Mercia Telford n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Mercia Telford and the Wrekin (G Division) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Mercia Worcester n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Midlands Solihull -32 18 2 -39 
			 West Midlands West Midlands D1 -39 2 -32 -55 
			 West Midlands West Midlands D2 -39 18 -34 -54 
			 West Midlands West Midlands D3 -33 6 -22 -43 
			 West Midlands West Midlands E1 -29 -1 -20 -42 
			 West Midlands West Midlands E2 -37 -17 -26 -40 
			 West Midlands West Midlands E3 -30 -3 -33 -37 
			 West Midlands West Midlands F1 -39 -13 -41 -32 
			 West Midlands West Midlands F2 -35 -25 -33 -54 
			 West Midlands West Midlands F3 -29 11 -51 -47 
			 West Midlands West Midlands G1 n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Midlands West Midlands G1 (after April 2007) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Midlands West Midlands G2 n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Midlands West Midlands G2 (after April 2007) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Midlands West Midlands H1 n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Midlands West Midlands H1 (after April 2006) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Midlands West Midlands H2 n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Midlands West Midlands H2 (after April 2006) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Midlands West Midlands J1 -37 -28 -22 -48 
			 West Midlands West Midlands J2 -37 -33 6 -42 
			 West Midlands West Midlands K1 n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Midlands West Midlands K1 (after April 2006) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Midlands West Midlands K2 n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Midlands West Midlands K2 (after April 2006) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Midlands West Midlands M1 n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Midlands West Midlands M1 (after April 2006) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Midlands West Midlands M2 n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Midlands West Midlands M2 (after April 2006) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Midlands West Midlands M3 n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Midlands West Midlands M3 (after April 2006) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Yorkshire Airedale and North Bradford n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Yorkshire Bradford North n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Yorkshire Bradford South n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Yorkshire Bradford South (after April 2008) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Yorkshire Calderdale -32 4 -50 -51 
			 West Yorkshire Chapeltown n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Yorkshire City and Holbeck (after April 2008) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Yorkshire Dewsbury n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Yorkshire Holbeck n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Yorkshire Huddersfield n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Yorkshire Keighley n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Yorkshire Killingbeck n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Yorkshire Kirklees (after April 2005) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Yorkshire Millgarth n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Yorkshire North East Leeds (after April 2008) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Yorkshire North West Leeds n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Yorkshire Pudsey n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 West Yorkshire Wakefield -30 22 -38 -51 
			 West Yorkshire Weetwood n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Wiltshire Chippenham (C) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Wiltshire Salisbury (A) n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 Wiltshire Swindon -8 12 16 -17 
			 Wiltshire Wiltshire County n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 n/a = Not available (1) The information presented complies with the National Statistics Code of Practice for Data Access and Confidentiality. In order to protect confidentiality, all counts lower than three have been suppressed. Other counts may be suppressed to protect confidentiality. These are denoted by an "*"symbol in the cell. (2) Please note that the BCU structure in some forces has changed across this period. The concerning cases are not comparable and labelled as "not available".

Crime: Victims

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what proportion of victims of crime were notified when the person charged with the crime against them was  (a) charged and  (b) convicted in each year since 1997.

Claire Ward: I have been asked to reply.
	Data on the number and proportion of victims of crime who were notified when the person charged with the crime against them was charged or convicted are not collected centrally.
	However, the Witness and Victim Experience Survey (WAVES) interviews a national sample of victims (and prosecution witnesses) aged 18 and over, comprising just under 20,000 victims whose cases resulted in a criminal charge, in the following crime types: violence against the person, robbery, burglary, and theft and handling stolen goods. The survey excludes victims and witnesses of sexual offences, domestic violence, and cases involving a fatality on ethical grounds. Drug and motoring offences are also excluded.
	WAVES data show that in 2008 (latest full year available), 91 per cent. of victims interviewed were notified that someone had been charged with the offence. WAVES does not fully distinguish between respondents who were informed of the case outcome, and those who found out the case outcome in another way.

Departmental Sick Leave

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 18 January 2010,  Official Report, column 32W, on departmental sick leave, what the average number of annual working days lost per employee through sick leave was in each of the last 12 months; and what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of such leave.

Alan Johnson: The average working days lost per staff per staff year in the Home Office (including its executive agencies) is shown in Table 1. The total cost of this absence is estimated to be about £24 million (out of a total wage bill for the Home Office of £997 million).
	
		
			  Home Office RYAWDL( 1) 
			   Number 
			 January 2009 9.63 
			 February 2009 9.32 
			 March 2009 9.34 
			 April 2009 9.25 
			 May 2009 9.17 
			 June 2009 9.10 
			 July 2009 9.16 
			 August 2009 9.26 
			 September 2009 9.25 
			 October 2009 9.23 
			 November 2009 9.10 
			 December 2009 8.98 
			 (1) This figure includes Home Office HQ, United Kingdom Border Agency, identity and Passport Service and Criminal Records Bureau.

Domestic Violence: Immigrants

Adrian Sanders: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects his Department's scheme to grant women victims of domestic violence indefinite leave to remain in order to receive support to commence; and how much funding will be allocated to the scheme in its first year of operation.

Alan Campbell: Since 1999, victims of domestic violence who entered the UK on a spouse or partner visa have been able to apply for indefinite leave to remain (ILR) in the UK under the domestic violence rule.
	Since 30 November 2009, the Home Office has been running a pilot to support victims of domestic violence while their applications for ILR under the domestic violence rule are processed.
	The costs of the pilot relate directly to the number of victims, and their children, who apply and are accepted under set criteria, therefore, we will not know the total cost until completion of the pilot.

Drug Seizures

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what quantity and street value of class  (a) A,  (b) B and  (c) C drugs was seized (i) in each police force area, (ii) at all major UK entry points and (iii) in England and Wales in each year since 1998.

Alan Johnson: Information on the quantities of selected class A, B and C drugs are published in supplementary table A5 of the Home Office Statistical Bulletin, "Drug seizures". Copies of this and earlier editions of the bulletin are available in the Library of the House.
	The data covers seizures by all police forces as well as seizures in England and Wales at major entry points by the UK Border Agency (the statistics for 2004, 2005 and 2006-07 were provided by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs. Data on seizure quantities for other drugs are not available as it is not possible to accurately calculate conversion factors (based on drug purities) for less commonly seized drugs.
	Data on the street value of drugs are not collected by the Home Office, however information on the street value of drugs has been provided by the Serious Organised Crime agency (SOCA). The information covers UK wide prices.

Fixed Penalty Procedures Working Group

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer to Lord Tebbit of 2 February 2010,  Official Report, House of Lords, column WA16, on cycling, on how many occasions the Fixed Penalty Procedures Working Group has met in the last 12 months; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the  (a) minutes and  (b) papers of each meeting held in the last 12 months.

Alan Campbell: The Fixed Penalty Procedures Working Group has met once in the last 12 months. The minutes of that meeting will be formally approved at its next meeting on 23 April, and I shall place a copy in the Library at that time.

National Security: Electromagnetic Fields

Hugo Swire: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department 
	(1)  what recent assessment has been made on the vulnerability of critical infrastructure to an electromagnetic pulse caused  (a) deliberately and  (b) through solar activity;
	(2)  what recent assessment he has made of the feasibility of strengthening civilian systems against electromagnetic pulse attacks; and what estimate he has made of the cost of undertaking such work.

David Hanson: The Government's Cyber Security Strategy of the United Kingdom, published alongside and reflected in the National Security Strategy update of June 2009, considers a number of methods of cyber attack, including those that generate high levels of power that can damage or disrupt unprotected electronics. It also outlines the new governance structures and workstreams which are now building on existing work to take forward the Government's plan for reducing the impact on and vulnerability of the UK's interests from cyber attacks.
	The Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) provides advice on electronic or cyber protective security measures to the businesses and organisations that comprise the UK's critical national infrastructure, including public utilities, companies and banks. CPNI also runs a CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) service which responds to reported attacks on private sector networks. In addition, CESG provides government departments with advice and guidance on how to protect against, detect and mitigate various types of cyber attack.
	It would not be in the interests of national security to provide information about specific vulnerabilities, assessments or protective measures relating to electromagnetic pulse attack.

Police Cautions

Paul Holmes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police cautions were given for  (a) violent offences,  (b) sexual offences,  (c) robbery,  (d) burglary,  (e) theft,  (f) fraud and forgery,  (g) criminal damage and  (h) drugs offences in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such cases were first offences.

Alan Campbell: h olding answer 2 March 2010
	 The latest Information on the number of persons cautioned, broken down as requested is published in table 3.1 of the Ministry of Justice Statistical Bulletin 'Criminal Statistics, England and Wales 2008'.
	Copies are available in the Library of the House, however the table is provided for the Member's convenience.
	Additionally, data provided by the Ministry of Justice on the proportion of cautions, reprimands or warnings given to offenders with no previous caution or conviction from 2006 to 2008 is provided in table B.
	The figures in table B have been drawn from the police's administrative IT system, the police national computer, which, as with any large scale recording system, is subject to possible errors with data entry and processing. The figures are provisional and subject to change as more information is recorded by the police. PNC data has been used for this table rather than data collection that forms the source of the published caution statistics, as the PNC provides information on the criminal history of offenders. As a result of the above, the two datasets are not directly comparable.
	
		
			  Table 3.1: Offenders( 1 ) cautioned by sex and type of offence, 1998-2008: England and Wales 
			   Number of offenders (thousand) 
			  Sex and type of offence  1998  1999  2000  2001  2002  2003  2004  2005  2006  2007  2008 
			  Males( 1)
			  Indictable offences
			 Violence against the person 18.4 16.6 15.5 15.2 17.9 21.5 27.5 38.1 43.8 39.6 28.4 
			 Sexual offences 1.7 1.4 1.3 1.2 1.2 1.3 1.5 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.6 
			 Burglary 7.5 6.8 5.8 5.7 5.0 4.9 4.9 5.6 6.8 6.2 4.8 
			 Robbery 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.5 0.3 
			 Theft and handling stolen goods 51.4 46.4 40.0 36.6 30.7 30.7 34.2 38.0 42.0 41.8 37.7 
			 Fraud and forgery 4.7 4.6 3.8 3.6 3.3 3.5 3.7 4.4 5.2 5.6 5.6 
			 Criminal damage 2.4 2.6 2.8 2.9 2.6 3.1 4.6 6.0 7.5 7.4 6.5 
			 Drug offences 52.3 43.5 36.4 34.9 39.8 40.2 28.5 30.1 32.5 37.6 41.0 
			 Other (excluding motoring offences) 4.2 3.7 3.6 3.4 3.6 4.2 4.7 5.5 7.3 7.8 6.8 
			 Total (excluding motoring offences) 2| 142.9 126.1 109.7 103.8 104.4 109.8 110.0 129.9 147.6 148.5 132.8 
			 Summary offences (excluding motoring offences) 76.9 76.1 69.6 63.8 70.9 76.0 87.6 112.0 120.2 112.2  
			 All offences(2 )(excluding motoring offences) 219.8 202.3 179.3 171.8 168.2 186.0 217.5 259.6 120.2 112.2 245.0 
			  Females
			  Indictable offences
			 Violence against the person 5.1 4.7 4.4 4.4 5.7 7.2 9.1 13.0 13.4 12.7 9.2 
			 Sexual offences 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 
			 Burglary 0.9 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.8 0.9 0.8 0.6 
			 Robbery 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 
			 Theft and handling stolen goods 32.2 29.1 27.6 26.9 23.5 23.8 27.8 29.6 30.3 31.0 26.1 
			 Fraud and forgery 2.7 2.6 2.4 2.2 2.0 2.0 2.3 2.5 2.8 3.0 2.7 
			 Criminal damage 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.9 1.3 1.5 1.4 1.2 
			 Drug offences 6.4 5.8 4.7 4.5 5.1 5.5 4.1 4.3 4.9 5.4 5.9 
			 Other (excluding motoring offences) 0.8 0.9 0.8 0.8 0.8 1.0 1.3 1.4 2.1 2.1 1.7 
			 Total (excluding motoring offences)(2) 48.8 44.5 41.2 40.1 38.5 41.0 46.3 53.0 56.2 56.6 47.6 
			 Summary offences (excluding motoring offences) 19.2 19.4 18.5 18.0 18.6 20.2 23.5 28.5 34.2 37.6 34.3 
			 All offences(2 )(excluding motoring offences) 68.1 63.9 59.7 58.1 57.2 61.2 69.8 81.4 90.3 94.2 81.9 
			  All offenders
			  Indictable offences
			 Violence against the person 23.5 21.2 19.9 19.6 23.6 28.8 36.6 51.0 57.3 52.3 37.6 
			 Sexual offences 1.7 1.5 1.3 1.2 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 1.9 2.0 1.7 
			 Burglary 8.4 7.7 6.6 6.4 5.8 5.6 5.6 6.5 7.7 7.0 5.4 
			 Robbery 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.6 0.4 
			 Theft and handling stolen goods 83.6 75.4 67.6 63.5 54.2 54.5 61.9 67.6 72.4 72.8 63.8 
			 Fraud and forgery 7.4 7.2 6.2 5.8 5.3 5.5 6.0 6.9 8.0 8.6 8.2 
			 Criminal damage 2.7 3.0 3.2 3.4 3.1 3.7 5.5 7.2 9.0 8.8 7.7 
			 Drug offences 58.7 49.4 41.1 39.4 44.9 45.7 32.6 34.4 37.4 43.1 46.9 
			 Other (excluding motoring offences) 5.0 4.6 4.4 4.1 4.4 5.3 6.0 6.9 9.4 10.0 8.6 
			 Total (excluding motoring offences)(2) 191.7 170.6 150.9 143.9 142.9 150.7 156.3 182.9 203.8 205.1 180.3 
			 Summary offences (excluding motoring offences) 96.2 95.6 88.1 85.9 82.4 91.1 99.5 116.0 146.2 157.8 146.6 
			 All offences(2) (excluding motoring offences) 287.9 266.1 239.0 229.9 225.4 241.8 255.8 298.9 350.0 362.9 326.9 
			 (1) Other offenders i.e. companies, public bodies, etc. are included with males. (2) May not sum due to rounding. 
		
	
	
		
			  Table B: Proportion of cautions, reprimands or warnings given to offenders with no previous caution or conviction recorded on the Police National Computer, England and Wales, 2006-08 
			   Percentage 
			   2006  2007  2008 
			 Violence against the person 61 58 58 
			 Sexual offences 68 68 71 
			 Burglary 62 59 56 
			 Robbery 73 70 69 
			 Theft and handling stolen goods 72 70 66 
			 Fraud and forgery 65 65 63 
			 Criminal damage 63 60 58 
			 Drug offences 44 43 42 
			 Other indictable offences 63 59 58 
			 All indictable 62 60 57 
			 Summary offences 61 58 55 
			 All offences 62 59 56

Police: Sick Leave

Mark Pritchard: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers are on sickness absence due to  (a) back-related injuries and  (b) stress.

David Hanson: This information is not collected centrally.

Reparation by Offenders

Paul Holmes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent progress has been made on the recruitment of local justice champions in Justice Seen, Justice Done areas.

Alan Campbell: There are 60 Neighbourhood Crime and Justice Pioneer Areas. Each has appointed a Neighbourhood Crime and Justice Co-ordinator. Areas also receive funding to appoint a victims champion. The vast majority of appointments have been made with a named contact in place in every area.

Vetting

Francis Maude: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 1 February 2010,  Official Report, column 90W, on independent safeguarding authority, what proportion of the population has been subject to a Criminal Records Bureau check.

Meg Hillier: The Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) cannot determine what proportion of the population has been subject to a CRB check as the Bureau only provides this service to employers based in England and Wales. The following table shows the number of CRB certificates issued in each financial year since its inception in 2002:
	
		
			  Financial year  Total certificates issued 
			 2002-03 1,437,094 
			 2003-04 2,284,688 
			 2004-05 2,430,937 
			 2005-06 2,770,265 
			 2006-07 3,277,957 
			 2007-08 3,323,251 
			 2008-09 3,855,881 
			 2009-10 3,215,409 
		
	
	The CRB cannot determine how many applicants these certificates relate to as applicants can apply more than once for a check in any one period. These figures are calculated by financial year and information for 2009-10 contains the figures up to December 2009. The full financial year's figure will not be available until after March 2010.

Violent and Sex Offender Register

Dominic Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for removal from the sex offender register of a person convicted of consensual homosexual activity have been  (a) received and  (b) approved in each year since 2004.

Alan Campbell: holding answer 2 March 2010
	This answer can be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

CULTURE MEDIA AND SPORT

Departmental Advertising

Angus Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much  (a) his Department and  (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which his Department is responsible spent on advertising in each year since 2005.

Gerry Sutcliffe: The available information regarding expenditure on advertising by the Department and its agency, the Royal Parks, is set out in the table. In respect of the Department, it shows spend on recruitment advertising; other advertising spend is not separately analysed on the Department's accounting system and can be collated only at disproportionate cost.
	The Department does not centrally maintain records on advertising spend in respect of its non-departmental bodies. It would incur disproportionate cost to obtain and collate this information.
	
		
			  Financial year  DCMS spend (£)  The Royal Parks spend (£) 
			 2009-10 to January 2010 18,800 86,410 
			 2008-09 17,940 47,010 
			 2007-08 36,150 34,830 
			 2006-07 38,390 15,630 
			 2005-06 105,450 14,650

Departmental Computers

Francis Maude: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield of 12 January 2010,  Official Report, column 861W, on departmental computers, for what reason websites featuring tobacco content are banned; if he will give examples of the types of tobacco sites which are banned; and whether the internet ban includes the Forest (Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco) website.

Gerry Sutcliffe: The filtering software used by my Department has a standard range of categories that are blocked by default. Filtering is switched off for those categories that are directly related to the work of my Department, currently tobacco remains blocked. The tobacco category covers tobacco promotional websites such as
	www.marlboro.com
	The Forest (Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco) website was inadvertently covered by this category by default. It has been unblocked.

Departmental Consultants

Angus Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which his Department is responsible spent on external consultants and advisers in each year since 2005.

Gerry Sutcliffe: The expenditure on external consultants and advisers by the Department and its agency, the Royal Parks, is set out in the table.
	The Department does not centrally maintain records on consultancy spend in respect of its non-departmental public bodies. To collate this information would incur disproportionate cost.
	
		
			  Financial year  DCMS spend (£000)  The Royal Parks spend (£000) 
			 2009-10 to January 2010 712 329 
			 2008-09 1,220 111 
			 2007-08 1,163 883 
			 2006-07 886 834 
			 2005-06 1,161 574

Departmental Energy

Daniel Rogerson: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what steps his Department plans to take to participate in the Earth Hour event on 27 March 2010.

Gerry Sutcliffe: The Department will support the Earth Hour event on Saturday 27 March 2010 by switching off all office lights for one hour at 8.30 pm.

Departmental Theft

Tom Watson: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many thefts from his Department have been recorded in the last two years.

Gerry Sutcliffe: No thefts have been recorded in the last two years at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Gaming Machines

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent steps his Department has taken to assist public houses facing closure.

Gerry Sutcliffe: The Government have no current plans to reclassify skill with prizes machines as gaming machines.
	The Gambling Act 2005 sets out the tests to be applied when determining whether or not a machine is a gaming machine. A full regulatory impact assessment accompanied the Bill.

Local Government: Statistics

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport pursuant to the answer of 3 February 2010,  Official Report, column 341W, on local government finance, under how many indicators performance data are collected from local authorities in respect of  (a) free swimming initiatives and  (b) licensing.

Gerry Sutcliffe: The Department for Culture, Media and Sport does not collect 'indicator' data from local authorities on free swimming or licensing and neither source is used for the national indicators set. Local authorities that have signed up to the free swimming initiative are responsible for submitting quarterly basic throughput data on the number of free swims that have taken place in their area each month.
	For alcohol, entertainment and late night refreshment licensing the main purpose of this collection is to collect basic statistics about the operation of licensing. This provides a national picture and helps licensing authorities benchmark their position.
	All data collected are published on the DCMS website, where further details can be found, including all the data we ask local authorities to provide for these two collections.

National Lottery: Olympic Games 2012

Angus MacNeil: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much revenue from the Dream Number Lottery game had been raised for the purposes of the London 2012 Olympics on the latest date for which figures are available.

Gerry Sutcliffe: As at 31 December 2009, designated Olympic Lottery games (including Dream Number) have raised more than £450 million towards the cost of staging the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic games.
	Returns to good causes from the sale of all National Lottery products are calculated in accordance with a formula set out in the National Lottery Licence. Proceeds to the Olympic Lottery Distribution Fund (OLDF) are based on the proportion of total sales attributable to all designated Olympic Lottery games. These include the Dream Number draw, certain Scratchcards and online instant win games. Proceeds to the OLDF are not available on a game-by-game basis.
	We remain on course to meet the £750 million target towards the cost of staging the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games from dedicated National Lottery games.

Olympic Games: Canada

Jeremy Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many  (a) Ministers and  (b) officials of his Department attended the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Gerry Sutcliffe: holding answer 25 February 2010
	In my capacity as Minister for Sport I attended the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and was accompanied by my Private Secretary. The Minister for the Olympics also attended the games with her Private Secretary, a press officer and a special adviser.
	In addition, four members of the Government Olympic Executive also attended the games and it is planned that a further four officials will attend the Paralympics. They are participating in the observer programmes which run throughout the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.
	Attendance at the Games provided an invaluable opportunity to study at first-hand Vancouver's experience in staging an Olympic Games and to learn lessons for London 2012.

Olympic Games: Canada

Jeremy Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much his Department spent on travel for  (a) officials and  (b) Ministers to the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.

Gerry Sutcliffe: holding answer 1 March 2010
	Details of ministerial travel costing over £500 are published annually and include the cost, destination and purpose of the trip. It also provides information on the number of officials who accompany Ministers.
	The most recent list was published in July 2009 and the details of attendance at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games will be included in the 2010 return.

Olympic Lottery

Stewart Hosie: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much was raised for the London 2012 Olympics by  (a) national lottery games dedicated to the London 2012 Olympics and  (b) the Dream Number lottery game in 2007-08.

Gerry Sutcliffe: National Lottery Games dedicated to raising money for the London 2012 Olympics provided a total of £147 million for the financial year 2007-08.
	Returns to good causes from the sale of all National Lottery products are calculated in accordance with a formula set out in the National Lottery Licence. Proceeds to the Olympic Lottery Distribution Fund (OLDF) are based on the proportion of total sales attributable to all designated Olympic Lottery games. These include the Dream Number draw, certain Scratchcards and online instant win games. Proceeds to the OLDF are not available on a game-by-game basis.
	We remain on course to meet the £750 million target towards the cost of staging the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games from dedicated National Lottery games.

Public Houses: Closures

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what recent steps his Department has taken to assist public houses facing closure.

Gerry Sutcliffe: The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) continues to be the lead voice in Whitehall on the importance to the economy of the whole hospitality industry, including public houses, and for licensing policy. In particular, the Licensing Act 2003 and subsequent simplifications of its processes have produced savings in administrative burdens of about £99 million annually since the Act came into force in November 2005.
	The Prime Minister has recently appointed my hon. Friend, the Minister for Housing and Planning to head a task force of five Ministers to champion public houses in their role as the hubs of their communities. The Department for Communities and Local Government is co-ordinating relevant work with the DCMS, The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, HM Treasury and the Cabinet Office.

Sports: Health Services

Andrew MacKinlay: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport whether responsibility for providing free emergency health cover and hospital accommodation and treatment for  (a) participants and  (b) spectators at major international sporting events resides with the host country; if he will clarify the position in relation to (i) participants and visitors to the UK attending the London 2012 Olympic Games and (ii) UK residents who attend, as participants and as visitors, the Isle of Man TT Races; and if he will make a statement.

Gerry Sutcliffe: UK Sport has advised that for the majority of events supported by UK Sport through its World Class Events programme, athletes are required by their international federations to have their own insurance to allow them to compete. International federations will usually incorporate medical cover requirements in the event contract agreements with which host organisers must comply.
	The event organisers are liable for public liability insurance cover in case of any accident/injury as a result of the event set up, as opposed to simply injury/accidents as a result of participants competing.
	Visitors to events are always covered in terms of emergency first aid as a matter of best practice. This would be free of charge, but organisers of events would not be liable to cover any required hospital treatment.
	With regards to participants and visitors to the UK for the Olympic Games in 2012, it was a requirement of the bid that NHS treatment for the Games Family (including participants, IOC and IPC members, technical officials etc.) would be free. The Department of Health is working to fulfil the bid commitment.
	For participants, the larger Olympic and Paralympic teams will bring their own specialist medical teams and will provide any medical care required. The vast majority of medical services will be delivered by LOCOG in the polyclinic in the Olympic Park and in on-site facilities in other Games' venues. LOCOG is working directly with Hospital Trusts to specify the services and facilities needed in the rare event that a participant is admitted to hospital.
	For spectators, business as usual arrangements will apply in line with current legislation-treatment given in an NHS accident and emergency department is free to all persons, but treatment after admission as an in-patient will incur a charge unless the person is entitled to it for free.
	Finally, with regards to the TT races on the Isle of Man, the reciprocal healthcare agreement between the UK and the Isle of Man is still in effect, but terminates on 31 March 2010. Therefore all competitors must be insured against the risk of personal accident in accordance with the FIM Sporting Code.
	The Isle of Man Health Service is not part of the UK NHS and, except for immediately necessary and emergency treatment which does not require admission to hospital, visitors to the Isle of Man (including UK residents) who require treatment will be expected to pay for it.
	It is therefore strongly recommended that all visitors to the Isle of Man ensure that they have appropriate insurance in place which will cover any treatment costs and repatriation to the UK by air ambulance if that should prove necessary.

Swimming: Concessions

Jeremy Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much his Department spent on the free swimming initiative in each quarter of 2009 for which figures are available.

Gerry Sutcliffe: holding answer 26 February 2010
	The funding structure of the programme, with grants going to local authorities covering each financial year, means that quarterly spend figures for the Department are not available.
	The Free Swimming Programme (FSP) is a £140 million package comprising contributions from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the Department of Health, the Department for Children, Schools and Families, the Department for Work and Pensions and the Department for Communities and Local Government. This is broken down into £10 million (capital funding) in 2008-09 and £65 million (a mixture of capital and resource) in each year for 2009-10 and 2010-11.

CHILDREN, SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES

Departmental Internet

Oliver Heald: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many designs for its website his Department and its predecessors have commissioned since 2005.

Diana Johnson: The Department's main website homepage:
	www.dcsf.gov.uk
	and standard web page template have undergone four redesigns since 2005, as a result of changes to the Department's name and brand.

Departmental Official Hospitality

Angus Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what expenditure his Department incurred on hospitality extended by Ministers in the financial year  (a) 2004-05,  (b) 2005-06,  (c) 2006-07 and  (d) 2007-08 in current prices.

Diana Johnson: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 15 December 2008,  Official Report, column 494W.

Departmental Official Hospitality

Angus Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many receptions he has hosted for representatives of print and broadcast media since October 2008; how much each reception cost; and how many people attended each.

Angus MacNeil: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many receptions he has hosted for representatives of print and broadcast media since 2008; how much each reception cost; and how many people attended each.

Diana Johnson: I refer the hon. Members to the written ministerial statements made by my right hon. Friend Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families on 22 July 2008,  Official Report, column 84WS, and 13 October 2009,  Official Report, column 15WS.
	Information for the current financial year will be published later in the year.

Departmental Official Hospitality

Angus MacNeil: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much his Department spent on ministerial hospitality in  (a) 2004-05,  (b) 2005-06,  (c) 2006-07 and  (d) 2007-08, expressed in current prices.

Diana Johnson: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 15 December 2008,  Official  R eport , column 494W.

Departmental Official Hospitality

Angus MacNeil: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many receptions he plans to host in 2010 for representatives of print and broadcast media.

Diana Johnson: There are no such receptions planned at this time.

Departmental Public Expenditure

Peter Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what percentage of his Department's annual budget is allocated to preventative and early intervention measures.

Diana Johnson: holding answer 26 February 2010
	 Preventative and early intervention measures are an integral part of many of the Department's programmes and policies. However, these aspects of the Department's business are not always identified as specific allocated budgets within the remit of larger programmes and policy initiatives. It would not be possible to accurately identify the annual amount of spend on preventative and early intervention measures without incurring disproportionate cost.

Departmental Public Relations

Stewart Hosie: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families 
	(1)  with which public relations companies  (a) his Department and  (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which his Department is responsible and  (c) other bodies sponsored by his Department have had contracts in each year since 2004;
	(2)  how much was spent on external consultants and advisers by  (a) his Department and  (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which his Department is responsible in 2009.

Diana Johnson: Public relations agencies are employed for specific communications tasks, most commonly working alongside our press office to provide campaign support in local, regional and specialist media. The Department's expenditure on public relations for complete financial years, since its formation in June 2007, is outlined in the following table.
	
		
			   Total spend (£) 
			 2007-08 2,333,000 
			 2008-09 4,023,403 
		
	
	The other requested information cannot be obtained without incurring disproportionate cost.

Departmental Theft

Tom Watson: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many thefts from his Department have been recorded in the last two years.

Diana Johnson: The number of items reported stolen from the Department for Children, Schools and Families in the last two years is given in the following table.
	
		
			  Item stolen  2008/09  2009/10 
			 Laptops 4 4 
			 Blackberry/mobile 5 5 
			 Projector 1 - 
			 Spider phone 1 - 
			 Staff passes 17 18 
			 Total 28 27

Education: International Cooperation

Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families 
	(1)  what the average duration is of a Teachers' International Professional Development Programme visit;
	(2)  how many teachers and teaching assistants participated in Teachers' International Professional Development Programme visits to each county in each year since 2000.

Vernon Coaker: Study visits taking place under the Teachers International Professional Development (TIPD) programme take place during half-term and other holiday periods. The majority of study visits last for five days, but for long-haul destinations the study visit may be extended to a maximum of 10 days.
	There are three strands to the TIPD programme: local authority led study visits on a theme decided by the relevant local authority; school determined visits to examine a theme of study decided by the schools engaged; and a programme of study visits to developing countries jointly funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Department for International Development. The number of teachers taking part in study visits by country under each of these three strands is contained in tables, copies of which have been placed in the Libraries.

Education: International Cooperation

Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families 
	(1)  if he will place in the Library a copy of each  (a) audit and  (b) evaluation of the Teachers' International Professional Development programme undertaken or commissioned by his Department to date;
	(2)  what assessment he has made of the effectiveness in promoting best practice in schools in England of the Teachers' International Professional Development programme.

Vernon Coaker: The Department commissioned the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) to conduct reviews of the Teachers International Professional Development (TIPD) programme, and evaluation reports were issued in 2002, 2003 and 2005. A further internal review of the TIPD programme reported in December 2006. Copies of these reports have been placed in the Library.
	In 2009, the Department and the Department for International Development (DFID) commissioned a review of a range of international programmes funded by the two Departments. The review concluded that whilst the TIPD programme provided valuable professional development opportunities, efficiencies and improved outcomes could be achieved through streamlining the design and delivery of programmes. A formal public consultation on recommendations flowing from this review is planned for the near future.

Home Education

David Anderson: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of school attendance orders in supporting families with home-educated children.

Vernon Coaker: It is the parents' duty to ensure that their child receives a suitable full-time education at school or otherwise (including home elective education).
	If a local authority has concerns that a child is not receiving a suitable, full-time education it has the power to take steps under the school attendance order framework, including serving a school attendance order on the child's parents instructing them to register their child at a named school. Failure to comply with an order is an offence. Local authorities have the responsibility for prosecuting parents if they breach a school attendance order and also have the option of seeking an education supervision order. We believe that this achieves a balance between the rights of parents to educate their children outside the school system, many of whom do a good job, and the rights of the child to a full-time education suitable to their needs and abilities.

Primary Education

Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families with reference to the answer of 29 October 2009,  Official Report, column 596W, on primary education, how many schools in each  (a) region and  (b) local authority area there were in each category in each year.

Diana Johnson: holding answer 25 February 2010
	The information requested is shown in the following table.
	
		
			  Number of maintained primary schools with over 800 pupils( 1 ) 1997 and 2009-England 
			   Number of schools 
			  1997  
			  England 11 
			   
			  North West 3 
			 Lancashire 1 
			 Wirral 2 
			   
			  West Midlands 1 
			 Dudley 1 
			   
			  London 7 
			  Outer London 7 
			 Enfield 1 
			 Newham 6 
			   
			  2009  
			  England 16 
			   
			  North West 1 
			 Sefton 1 
			   
			  West Midlands 1 
			 Birmingham 1 
			   
			  London 13 
			  Inner London 1 
			 Lambeth 1 
			  Outer London 12 
			 Barking and Dagenham 1 
			 Bromley 1 
			 Enfield 2 
			 Hillingdon 1 
			 Newham 4 
			 Redbridge 2 
			 Waltham Forest 1 
			   
			  South East 1 
			 East Sussex 1 
			 (1) Headcount of sole registered pupils.  Source: School Census

Pupils: Bullying

David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 10 February 2010,  Official Report, column 1093W, on pupils: bullying, what steps his Department has taken to tackle bullying in schools in the last 12 months.

Vernon Coaker: Over the last 12 months, we have continued to roll out a comprehensive programme of work to prevent and tackle bullying. This includes working through the Anti-Bullying Alliance and the National Strategies to help schools deal with bullying effectively and providing challenge and support, where necessary, to improve anti-bullying strategies.
	It also includes funding for peer mentoring of pupils and a helpline for parents. We have strengthened further our anti-bullying guidance. In April 2009 we published new guidance on preventing and tackling the cyberbullying of school staff. In September we produced a DVD resource pack for schools on bullying related to special educational needs or disabilities. In December 2009 we issued new guidance for schools on preventing and responding to sexist, sexual and transphobic bullying. In February this year we produced, in collaboration with Stonewall, a DVD resource pack on tackling homophobic bullying.
	In November 2009 the Anti-Bullying Alliance delivered our annual anti-bullying week for which the theme was cyberbullying. During that week we launched a short web-based leaflet for parents on bullying from a young persons' perspective and re-ran our cyberbullying campaign, 'laugh at it and you're part of it'. In December, 2009 we published a consultation document on the new duty on schools (due to come into force this September) to record and report all serious and persistent incidents of bullying.

Schools: Anti-Semitism

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what steps his Department  (a) has taken recently and  (b) plans to take to reduce levels of anti-Semitism in schools; what recent discussions Ministers and officials in his Department have had on this issue; what recent representations he has received on this issue; and if he will make a statement.

Vernon Coaker: I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to him on 9 July 2009,  Official Report, columns 1001-1002W. Further to that, the Department is currently consulting on a new statutory duty on schools to record and report to the local authority all incidents of bullying between pupils including racist bullying. The consultation will end on 4 March 2010 and plans are for the new duty to come into effect in September 2010. We have also provided additional funding to the School Linking Network to promote inter-faith linking by supporting faith schools, from both the independent and maintained sectors, to work in partnership to provide opportunities for their pupils to mix and interact, in order to promote community cohesion. My officials regularly attend the Anti-Semitism Working Group along with officials from other Government Departments and stakeholders from across the Jewish communities to monitor progress and discuss issues in relation to tackling anti-Semitism.

Schools: Flooding

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families for how many days schools in each region were closed owing to flooding in each of the last five years.

Diana Johnson: Schools and local authorities are under no duty to report closures to my Department, so the Department does not maintain any regular records of closures. We do have information on the floods in mid 2007, and that information is shown in the following table, the figures would include closures due to storm damage as well as flooding. Most schools closed for one to two days only, but we do not have a record of how many days each school was closed.
	The only significant flood disruption to schools in 2009 was in Cumbria in November, when we understand that most schools closed for at least one day, but we have no record of the number of schools.
	
		
			  School closures due to mid 2007 severe weather reported to DCSF 
			   Number of schools 
			 Yorkshire and Humber 386 
			 South East 126 
			 East Midlands 75 
			 West Midlands 35 
			 South West 6 
			 London 2 
			  Note: The figures represent school closures reported in June and July 2007, and some delayed openings in September 2007. As information is only held at local authority level, without school names, there may be a small amount of duplication, but involving fewer than 10 schools.

Schools: Police

Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families on how many occasions police were called to schools in  (a) 1997,  (b) 2005 and  (c) the latest year for which figures are available; and for what reason in each such case.

Diana Johnson: Data on the number of occasions police are called to schools are not collected at a national level.

Schools: Transport

David Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much and what proportion of the Walking to School initiative's budget was spent in the latest year for which figures are available.

Diana Johnson: The last year for which figures are available is 2009-10 during which we have spent £19.95 million which represents 95.4 per cent. of the available budget. Of this, £14.11 million was allocated as grants to schools and they have three years in which to spend the funding. The remaining £5.84 million expenditure represents salary costs for approximately 250 school travel advisers and seven regional school travel advisers.

Specialist Schools

David Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families by what mechanisms a school may apply for specialist school status in relation to catering and hospitality education.

Vernon Coaker: Schools can specialise in a range of curriculum based subjects but it is not possible for a school to specialise in catering and hospitality within the specialist schools programme. Academies have access to a greater range of specialisms which must be rigorous and linked to an academic subject. It would therefore be possible for an Academy to offer a specialism in catering and hospitality if this was linked to an academic subject.

Sports: Primary Education

Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many pupils  (a) overall,  (b) in years 10 and 11,  (c) at primary school received the recommended number of hours of sport each week in the latest period for which figures are available.

Diana Johnson: The 2008/09 PE and Sport survey showed that 50 per cent. of school pupils were taking part in at least three hours of high quality PE and sport per week as part of the five hour offer for children and young people. For Years 10 and 11 the figures were 42 per cent. and 37 per cent. respectively. For primary pupils the figure was 57 per cent. We are working with the Youth Sport Trust and Sport England, and through them with School Sport Partnerships and County Sport Partnerships, to ensure that plans are in place to deliver a five hour offer which is taken up by every young person who wants it. At present we judge this to be the case in 92 per cent. of SSPs. As part of this we believe every young person should have access to regular competitive sport; coaching to improve their skills and enjoyment; a choice of different sports; pathways to club and elite sport; and opportunities to lead and volunteer in sport. We are also developing new ways of communicating the offer so that more young people take it up.

Truancy: Prosecutions

Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many cases associated with parents not ensuring their child attended school have been heard in court since 1997.

Vernon Coaker: Information from the Ministry of Justice court proceedings database on the number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates' courts for offences relating to failing to attend school in England, 2001 to 2008 can be viewed in the attached table. Prior to 2001 these offences cannot be separately identified.
	These data are a further breakdown of those published in the Criminal Statistics, Supplementary Volumes for England and Wales for the years 2001-08.
	
		
			  The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates' courts at all courts for offences relating to 'failing to attend school( 1,2) 
			   2001  2002  2003  2004  2005  2006  2007  2008 
			 Proceeded against 1,961 3,163 3,849 4,442 4,648 5,999 7,745 9,506 
			 (1) Includes the following: (i) Failure to secure regular attendance at school. (Education Act 1996 S.444 (1)(8)). (ii) Parent knows that their child is failing to attend school regularly and fails without reasonable justification to cause him or her to attend school. (Education Act 1996 S.444(8)(1a)(8a) added by Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 S.72). (2) Prior to 2001 these offences cannot be separately identified.  Notes: 1. The statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences the principal offence is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe. 2. Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.  Source:  Justice Statistics Analytical Services - Ministry of Justice. 
		
	
	The increase in the number of cases over this period reflects a sustained drive, led by the Government, to improve levels of school attendance including by encouraging local authorities to make more use of their powers to proceed against parents who are failing in their legal responsibility to ensure their children receive a full time education. The outcome has been a significant improvement in school attendance, with on average 71,800 more children attending school each day in 2007-08 than in 2000-01.

Truancy: Prosecutions

Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many prosecutions for offences related to parents not ensuring their child attended school have resulted in conviction since 1997; and what the average fine imposed in respect of such convictions has been.

Vernon Coaker: Information from the Ministry of Justice court proceedings database on the number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts for offences relating to failing to attend school in England, 2001 to 2008 can be viewed in the following table. Prior to 2001 these offences cannot be separately identified.
	These data are a further breakdown of those published in the Criminal Statistics, Supplementary Volumes for England and Wales for the years 2001 to 2008.
	
		
			  The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts and average fine imposed for offences relating to 'failing to attend school'( 1,2) 
			   2001  2002  2003  2004  2005  2006  2007  200£ 
			 Proceeded against 1,961 3,163 3,849 4,442 4,648 5,999 7,745 9,506 
			 Found guilty 1,595 2,572 3,065 3,549 3,740 4,720 6,035 7,291 
			  
			 Average fine imposed (£) 98.7 108.3 111.0 112.4 119.2 123.5 127.3 144.3 
			 (1) Includes the following: (i) Failure to secure regular attendance at school. (Education Act 1996 S.444 (1)(8)). (ii) Parent knows that their child is failing to attend school regularly and fails without reasonable justification to cause him or her to attend school. (Education Act 1996 S.444(8)(1a)(8a) added by Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 S.72). (2) Prior to 2001 these offences cannot be separately identified.  Notes: 1. The statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences the principal offence is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe. 2. Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services-Ministry of Justice. (Ref: IOS 85-10) 
		
	
	The increase in the number of cases over this period reflects a sustained drive, led by the Government, to improve levels of school attendance including by encouraging local authorities to make more use of their powers to proceed against parents who are failing in their legal responsibility to ensure their children receive a full-time education. The outcome has been a significant improvement in school attendance, with on average 71,800 more children attending school each day in 2007/08 than in 2000/01.